Elsa Salazar Cade

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Elsa Salazar Cade is an award winning American science teacher and entomologist.

With her husband, William H. Cade, she discovered the first case of a parasite using the sexual signal of a host in order to locate and parasitize the host. She also was selected as one of the top ten science teachers in 1995 by the National Science Teachers Association. The Cades have done over thirty years of research on the Texas field cricket, Gryllus texensis. This research has covered the behavior of the field cricket at different densities and under parasitic pressure from the red eyed fly Ormia. She has also been very involved in the development of hands-on instructional program for middle school teachers through support from the National Science Foundation at the University at Buffalo. She maintains a website called Crickets in the Classroom, which is devoted to the use of crickets to teach basis biological concepts.