Frank Milburn Howlett, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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entomologist
Date of Birth: 05-Jan-1877
Place of Birth: Wymondham, England, United Kingdom
Date of Death: 20-Aug-1920
Profession: entomologist
Zodiac Sign: Capricorn 
About Frank Milburn Howlett
- Frank Milburn Howlett (5 January 1877-20 August 1920) was an entomologist who served as a Second Imperial Entomologist and Imperial Pathological Entomologist in India.
- He specialized in insects (mainly Diptera - sandflies) and parasitic ticks of medical and veterinary importance.Howlett was the son of Francis John, a solicitor, and his wife Mary Jane in Wymondham, Norfolk.
- He studied at Wymondham Grammar School and Bury St.
- Edmunds Grammar school, and then at Christ's College, Cambridge.
- He was an assistant master at Edinburgh Academy from 1900-1903 and at Holt Grammar School before being posted as a professor of natural science (which included the teaching of chemistry) at Muir Central College, Allahabad from 1904-1908, initially in a temporary position which was then extended.
- He joined the Imperial Agricultural Research Institute at Pusa in 1907 as Second (ie deputy) Imperial Entomologist and from 1912 as Imperial Pathological Entomologist for the Government of India.
- He left India during the First World War and worked with the Royal Army Medical College and returned in 1917.
- One of his most important findings was in noting the attraction of tephritid flies to methyl eugenol, a component that he identified from several others present in citronella oil.
- Howlett later moved to the Agricultural Research Institute at Pune.
- Howlett was also an athlete and artist but his health was poor during his service in India and he died an early death following a surgical procedure at Mussoorie.He assisted Harold Maxwell-Lefroy in writing and illustrating the book, Indian Insect Life.
- A species of tick, Haemaphysalis howletti described by Warburton in 1913 from a pony in Pakistan and in 1962 it was found on rodents and birds in Pune, Maharashtra.
- Howlett developed techniques for collecting and preserving insects and for marking insects (houseflies) to study dispersal.
- Brunetti, named a fly after Howlett as Howlettia (now considered a synonym of Platypalpus Macquart, 1827 of family Hybotidae).
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