Elizabeth A. McMahan
American entomologist
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Elizabeth A. McMahan's Degrees
- Bachelors Biology Stanford University
- Masters Entomology University of California, Berkeley
- PhD Entomology University of California, Berkeley
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Elizabeth Anne McMahan , known as Betty, was a Professor in the Department of Biology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for 26 years. She had a distinguished and varied career as an entomologist, psychologist, cartoonist, writer of children's books, and world traveler. She worked in the parapsychology lab of J. B. Rhine at Duke for several years, but left for graduate work in entomology at the University of Hawaiʻi and subsequent research on the feeding, foraging, and social behavior of termites and some of their associate and predator species. Her field work in entomology took her to Puerto Rico, Costa Rica, Panama, Venezuela, Ecuador, Australia, and India. Two insect species were named for her: the assassin bug Salyavata mcmahanae and the beetle Neophilotermes mcmahanae.
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