Lawrence Bruner was a United States

United States

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 entomologist.

Biography

His parents emigrated to Nebraska while he was a child. His father became a regent of the University of Nebraska, and at age 15, he enrolled at the school. He received an appointment as assistant on the United States Entomological Commission

United States Entomological Commission

The United States Entomological Commission was established by an Act of Congress in 1877 as a department under the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories headed by Dr. Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden. The commission was created to find a solution for the Rocky Mountain...

 in 1880, and as field agent for the United States Department of Agriculture

United States Department of Agriculture

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 at the University of Nebraska in 1888, where he became instructor in entomology in 1890 and professor in 1895. In 1897 and 1898 he traveled in Argentina as field agent again for the United States Department of Agriculture.

Works

• The Destructive Locust of Argentina (2 reports, 1898 and 1900)
• Locusts of Paraguay (1906)
• South American Tetrigidae
  Tetrigidae
  Tetrigidae is a family in the order Orthoptera, which also includes crickets, grasshoppers, and katydids. Species within the Tetrigidae are variously called grouse locusts, pygmy locusts, groundhoppers or pygmy grasshoppers. There are roughly 1,600 species in about 250 genera altogether...
  
  (1912)
• New Elementary Agriculture, co-author (9th ed., 1911)