Charles L. Hogue

Charles Leonard Hogue (1935-1992) was an American entomologist. Hogue was Senior Curator at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County and taught at the University of California, Los Angeles.[1] He wrote numerous popular and technical papers, mainly on Diptera, as well as several general books on insects. He died in 1992.[2]

Charles Hogue was the founder of a new discipline he called "Cultural entomology" concerning the influence of insects on human culture in the areas literature, language, music, the arts, interpretive history, religion, and recreation.[3]

Together with Roy Snelling, Hogue was a technical adviser for the Academy Award-winning documentary The Hellstrom Chronicle.[4][citation needed]

  1. ^ Hogue, Charles Leonard (1993-01-01). Latin American Insects and Entomology. ISBN 9780520078499.
  2. ^ Powell, Jerry A.; Hogue, Charles L. (September 1980). California Insects. ISBN 978-0520037823.
  3. ^ Charles L. Hogue, Cultural Entomology. Annual Review of Entomology, 1987, Vol. 32: 181-199.
  4. ^ The New York Times Movies - The Hellstrom Chronicle (1971) Production Credits