His insect studies were mainly applied to agriculture, horticulture and silviculture and he is an important figure in the history of Economic entomology . He also described new insect species in several orders . His son Ernst Otto Wilhelm Taschenberg was also an entomologist specialising in Hymenoptera.
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A student of Mark Hopkins at Williams College and of Louis Agassiz at Harvard University, Scudder was a prolific writer, publishing 791 papers between 1858 and 1902, on insect biogeography and paleobiogeography, insect behavior, ontogeny and phylogeny, insect songs, trace fossils, evolution, insect biology and economic entomology.
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Smith coined the term " biological control " in his 1919 article " On some phases of insect control by the biological method " for the " Journal of Economic Entomology ", referring to the reliance on the natural enemies of pests to effect control, as opposed to the use of pesticide.
