Justin O. Schmidt

Justin Orvel Schmidt (born March 23, 1947) is an American entomologist, co-author of Insect Defenses: Adaptive Mechanisms and Strategies of Prey and Predators, author of The Sting of the Wild, and creator of the Schmidt sting pain index. Schmidt studied honey bee nutrition, chemical communication, physiology, ecology and behavior at the Carl Hayden Bee Research Center in Tucson, Arizona, before taking lead and devoting full-time to The Southwestern Biological Institute in 2006. As research director of the Southwest Biological Institute, he studies the chemical and behavioral defenses of ants, wasps, and arachnids.

For the American soccer player, see Justin Schmidt (soccer).
Justin O. Schmidt
Born
Justin Orvel Schmidt

(1947-03-23) March 23, 1947
Alma materPennsylvania State University
Known forWork on killer bees
Notable work
Schmidt sting pain index

See also

References
    • Conniff, Richard. "The King of Sting", in Outside, v. 21 n. 4 (April 1996), pp. 82–84, 147.
    • Conniff, Richard. "Stung: How tiny little insects get us to do exactly as they wish", Discover, June 2003.


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