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Scientific and artistic research in applied entomology 1

When D. Kuenen, J. de Wilde and P. A. Van der Laan founded Entomologia experimentalis & applicata in 1957, with Dr. Van der Laan of the University of Amsterdam as editor, I had just reached scientific maturity following a 10 year initiation in applied entomology. I am therefore in a position to review the course of entomology, based on the papers published in our journal, as well as my personal experiences and memories. This presentation is not intended to be a personal perspective but rather a description of how the new generation of entomologists confronted the challenges of the day. As young entomologists, with a solid background of field experience, we sought more intellectually stimulating approaches than the mindless application of the miraculous new synthetic insecticides. We strove for a veritable science rather than an applied toxicological approach, and this at the time when George Varley was arguing for ecology to become an experimental science (15). Aware of H. S. Smith's publications (14) describing biological control as an art rather than a science, due to the lack of an adequate understanding of the biology of natural populations, I felt it necessary to finish my thesis with an impassioned verse indicating the need to construct an 'entomotron'. This entomotron could be programmed to simulate ecological conditions permitting one to study the evolution of communities comprised of plants, and both phytophagous and entomophagous insect species (8).