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Waldemar G Klee (Above) is listed in the Encyclopedia of Entomology as one of the Notable and Pioneer Entomologists along with such famous biologists as-

Agassiz, Jean Louis Rodolphe

Cuvier, (Baron) Georges Léopold Chretien Frédéric Dagobert

Darwin, Charles

Fabricius, Johann Christian

Linnaeus, Carolus (Linné, Carl von)

 

Listing for Waldemar Klee in the Encyclopedia of Entomology

Klee, Waldemar

G. Waldemar Klee was born in 1853 in Copenhagen , Denmark . He was educated in agriculture in Denmark , but moved to the USA at the age of 19 and worked for the University of California . For many years he studied the biology and management of fruit pests, and was appointed Inspector of Fruit Pests by the California State Board of Horticulture in 1886. Klee received parasitoids of cottony cushion scale from Australia and liberated them in San Mateo County in 1888, initiating the first biological control effort directed at this serious pest. He died in 1891 in Santa Cruz , California , USA .  

W. G. Klee also served as head of the University of California, Berkeley, Agriculture Experimental Station.

Reference

Essig, E. O. 1931. A history of entomology. The Macmillan Company,   New York . 1029 pp. 

This text originally appeared in Encyclopedia of Entomology - ISBN 0792386701 http://reference.springerlink.com./KapXSL.asp?Key=415AF64FD782D10FBC14574E5BE36487165BDB4B136972D94E88BDF91CAF92B8CD7DF3DCF117713F&?x=1&mode=section&sortKey=title&view=chapters&listView=list&xmlid=0792386701/_0792386701_k_sec25&curxmlid=0792386701

 Footnote: See link for details http://www.letreb.com/historyandgenealogy/WGKleePioneer.htm

“This particular project (i.e. the project involving cottony-cushion scale, in which WG Klee played a major role) was referred to by DeBach (1974), as the one that, "... established the biological control method like a shot heard around the world."  It was apparently, the first such project anywhere that specifically sought, and found, ways of controlling insect pests by introducing other insects that preyed upon them.