Background
Knipling, Edward Fred was born on March 20, 1909 in Port Lavaca, Texas, United States. Son of Henry John and Hulda Lena (Rasch) Knipling.
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This publication deals with the basic principles of insect population suppression and management. Its purpose is to develop a better understanding of the principles and mechanisms of different methods of control in relation to the dynamics of insect pest populations. Special emphasis is given to how these principles and mechanisms can be applied to slow down, stabilize, suppress, or eradicate target pest populations. Various control methods that are in use or being developed are analyzed critically, with special consideration given to ways that different techniques can be used simultaneously or sequentially to complement each other in developing ecologically acceptable insect control strategies.
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Research entomologist agricultural administrator
Knipling, Edward Fred was born on March 20, 1909 in Port Lavaca, Texas, United States. Son of Henry John and Hulda Lena (Rasch) Knipling.
Bachelor of Science, Texas Agricultural and Mechanical University, 1930. Master of Science, Iowa State University, 1932. Doctor of Philosophy, Iowa State University, 1947.
Honorary Doctor of Science, Catawba College, 1962. Honorary Doctor of Science, North Dakota State University, 1970. Honorary Doctor of Science, Clemson University, 1972.
Knipling"s contributions included the parasitoid augmentation technique, insect control methods involving the medication of the hosts, and various models of total insect population management. Knipling was best known as the inventor of the sterile insect technique (SIT), an autocidal theory of total insect population management. The New York Times Magazine proclaimed on January 11, 1970, that "Knipling..has been credited by some scientists as having come up with "the single most original thought in the 20th century."" Knipling was born on March 20, 1909, in Victoria, Texas.
As a youth raising cattle with his father, he saw firsthand the devastation that the screwworm fly and other pests wreaked on cattle herds and cotton crops.
Following graduation from Texas Agricultural and Mechanical University and graduate studies at Iowa State University, Knipling began researching the screwworm fly in 1931 as a United States. Department of Agriculture entomologist in Texas, where he met Bushland. Together, the men theorized about possibly breaking the pest’s life cycle by inducing genetic defects, but their research was temporarily suspended by the outbreak of World World War World War II During the war, Knipling’s research was diverted to support United States. Army efforts to repel and control insects that threatened Allied troops with diseases including typhus and malaria.
After the war, Knipling received a Doctor of Philosophy in entomology from Iowa State University and moved to Washington, District of Columbia, to lead United States Department of Agriculture entomology research. In this capacity, he continued working with Bushland to complete the development of SIT in the early 1950s.
Knipling remained at United States Department of Agriculture until 1973, eventually serving as the top entomological researcher in the United States Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service.
Foreign 27 years thereafter, he remained active as a United States Department of Agriculture consultant and collaborator, contributing significantly to new principles of pest insect management.
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Fellow Entomological Society of America (president 1952). Member National Academy of Sciences, American Academy Arts and Sciences Clubs: Cosmos.
Son of Henry John and Hulda Lena (Rasch) K. M. Phoebe Rebecca Hall. Children: Edwina, Anita, Edward B., Gary D., Ronald R.