Wilmatte Porter Cockerell
American entomologist, botanist, scientific collector and teacher
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Wilmatte Porter Cockerell's Degrees
- Bachelors Botany University of Colorado
- Masters Botany University of Colorado
- PhD Botany University of Colorado
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Wilmatte Porter Cockerell was an American entomologist and high school biology teacher who discovered and collected a large number of insect specimens and other organisms. She participated in numerous research and collecting field trips including the Cockerell-Mackie-Ogilvie expedition. She wrote several scientific articles in her own right, co-authored more with her husband, Theodore Dru Alison Cockerell, and assisted him with his prolific scientific output. She discovered and cultivated red sunflowers, eventually selling the seeds to commercial seed companies. Her husband and her entomological colleagues named a number of taxa in her honor.
Wilmatte Porter Cockerell's Published Works
Published Works
- Fossil Coleoptera from Florissant, with descriptions of several new species. Bulletin of the AMNH ; v. 30, article 5. (28)
- A report on some Miocene Diptera from Florissant, Colorado. American Museum novitates ; no. 1407 (1949) (26)
- Fossil parasitic and phytophagous Hymenoptera from Florissant, Colorado. Bulletin of the AMNH ; v. 22, article 29. (1906) (16)
- XLVIII.—Contributions from the New Mexico Biological Station.—VII. Observations on bees, with descriptions of new genera and species (1899) (15)
- XLVI.—Contributions from the New Mexico Biological Station—VIII. The New Mexico bees of the genus Bombus (1899) (5)
- A fossil cicada from Florissant, Colorado. Bulletin of the AMNH ; v. 22, article 26. (5)
- On the Tenthredinoidea of the Florissant shales. Bulletin of the AMNH ; v. 24, article 25. (4)
- COLLECTING BEES AT GUALAN, GUATEMALA. (1912) (4)
- VIII.—Contributions from the New Mexico biological station—IX. On certain genera of bees (3)
- Fossil dragonflies from Florissant, Colorado. Bulletin of the AMNH ; v. 23, article 5. (2)
- Fossil Diptera from Florissant, Colorado. Bulletin of the AMNH ; v. 26, article 2. (2)
- The Nesting of a Carpenter Bee (2)
- A Trip to the Truchas Peaks, New Mexico (1903) (2)
- On some fossil rhynchophorous Coleoptera from Florissant, Colorado. Bulletin of the AMNH ; v. 31, article 4. (2)
- The Tertiary Tenthredinoidea of the expedition of 1908 to Florissant, Colo. Bulletin of the AMNH ; v. 24, article 30. (2)
- A NEW GOOSEBERRY PLANT-LOUSE (1901) (2)
- An enumeration of the localities in the Florissant Basin, from which fossils were obtained in 1906. Bulletin of the AMNH ; v. 23, article 4. (2)
- A NEW MEALY-BUG ON GRASS-ROOTS (1901) (1)
- Some Aphids Associated With Ants (1)
- Fossil insects from Florissant, Colorado. [3]. Bulletin of the AMNH ; v. 30, article 6. (1)
- NOTE ON A RUBBER-PRODUCING PLANT. (1904) (1)
- Two fossil Phoridae from the Miocene shales of Florissant, Colorado. Bulletin of the AMNH ; v. 24, article 17. (0)
- The bees of Florissant, Colorado. Bulletin of the AMNH ; v. 22, article 25. (0)
- Note on a Rubber-Producing Plant (1904) (0)
- A fossil larrid wasp. Bulletin of the AMNH ; v. 24, article 24. (0)
- The fossil Mollusca of Florissant, Colorado. Bulletin of the AMNH ; v. 22, article 27. (0)
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