Charles Lester Marlatt

Charles Lester Marlatt (1863–1954) was an American entomologist born at Atchison, Kansas. He was educated at the Agricultural College at Manhattan, Kans. (B.S., 1884); M.S., 1886), where he was assistant professor for two years. He is the person who introduced the ladybird insect into the United States to control the San Jose scale insect, which was first discovered in San Jose, California in 1880 by John Henry Comstock and named by him. Marlatt worked for the Bureau of Entomology, United States Department of Agriculture. In 1912 he was appointed chairman of the Federal Horticultural Board. He was president of the Entomological Society of Washington in 1897-98 and of the Association of Economic Entomologists in 1899.

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