Capinera, John L.

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Capinera, John L.

PERSONAL: Male. Education: Southern Connecticut State University, B.A., 1970; University of Massachusetts, M.S., 1974, Ph.D., 1976.

ADDRESSES: Office—University of Florida, Entomology and Nematology Department. P.O. Box 110620, Gainesville, FL 32611-0620. E-mail—[email protected]; [email protected].

CAREER: Educator and writer. Colorado State University, Ft. Collins, assistant professor, 1976–81, associate professor, 1981–83, professor and interim chair, 1983–85, professor and head, 1985–87; University of Florida, Gainesville, professor and chairman, 1987–.

WRITINGS:

NONFICTION

(Editor) Integrated Pest Managementon Rangeland: A Shortgrass Prairie Perspective, Westview Press (Boulder, CO), 1987.

(Editor, with others) Pest Management in the Subtropics, Intercept (Andover, England), Volume 1: Biological Control, 1994, Volume 2: Integrated Pest Management, 1996.

(With Clay W. Scherer and Jason M. Squitier) Grasshoppers of Florida, University Press of Florida (Gainesville, FL), 2001.

Handbook of Vegetable Pests, Academic Press (San Diego, CA), 2001.

(With Ralph D. Scott and Thomas J. Walker) Field Guide to Grasshoppers, Katydids, and Crickets of the United States, Cornell University Press (Ithaca, NY), 2004.

(Editor) Encyclopedia of Entomology, Volumes 1-3, Kluwer Academic Press (New York, NY), 2004.

Contributor of numerous scholarly articles to professional journals and chapters to scientific books.

SIDELIGHTS: A professor of entomology, John L. Capinera is the author of hundreds of articles and chapters for professional publications on various aspects of insect life in the United States. Capinera has specialized in the study of grasshoppers and related insects. In his 2001 coauthored title, Grasshoppers of Florida, he provides a field guide to that insect. Peter Stiling, writing in the Quarterly Review of Biology, felt that "the superb color photographs of all species, which will make identification easy, are a major strength of this volume." Stiling went on to "recommend this book for both professional and amateur entomologists."

Again collaborating with other specialists, Capinera wrote the 2004 Field Guide to Grasshoppers, Katydids, and Crickets of the United States, which, according to Andrew Harvey, writing in the Times Literary Supplement, "admirably fulfils its basic function as an aid to identification, and teachers and students looking for research projects will find it a valuable resource." The book introduces over two hundred species, or about a third of the known number of such insects, discussing their form, song, and geographical distribution. Annette Aiello, writing in Library Journal, called Field Guide to Grasshoppers, Katydids, and Crickets of the United States a "splendid guide."