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Ross Bell (Ross Taylor Bell) was born on 23 April, 1929 in Champaign, Illinois, U.S., is an American entomologist (1929–2019). Discover Ross Bell's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 90 years old?

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Age 90 years old
Zodiac Sign Taurus
Born 23 April 1929
Birthday 23 April
Birthplace Champaign, Illinois, U.S.
Date of death 9 November, 2019
Died Place Shelburne, Vermont, U.S.
Nationality United States

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1929

Ross Taylor Bell (April 23, 1929 – November 9, 2019) was an American entomologist with particular interest in the invertebrate natural history of Vermont, United States, and carabid beetles.

Together with his wife, Joyce Rockenbach Bell, his work at the University of Vermont was largely taxonomic, where they described more than 75% of the rhysodine species known to science.

Ross also wrote a number of seminal papers in his chosen field.

Ross Bell was born April 23, 1929, in Champaign, Illinois, to parents Alfred Hannam Bell and Dorothy Bell.

He had two sisters - Martha and Enid.

The family members were keen naturalists, and family vacations included long drives to various locations in the US where the family would pursue their particular interests in botany, zoology, and geology.

Bell's particular interest in insects began with a childhood gift of an insect collecting kit from his parents.

He also received a jar of silk worm larvae, which he reared on mulberry leaves.

At age 14, he gained employment at the Illinois Natural History Survey at the University of Illinois where he sorted and identified flies of the families Sarcophagidae, Muscidae and Calliphoridae.

The following summer, he took a job with the taxonomic survey, though this turned out to provide him with little scope to develop his skills and interests.

Bell went to high school at the University Laboratory High School in Urbana.

He spent his summers at his aunt and uncle's farm in Ohio where, in between farm chores, he would collect and attempt to name insects from the fields and nearby stream.

1946

He spent 1946 to 1949 at the University of Illinois, where he earned a BS in zoology.

He then went on to gain his MS with a thesis about the Carabidae (Simplicia) of Illinois.

1950

In the early 1950s, under the sponsorship of entomologist W.V. Balduf, he completed his doctoral dissertation about the comparative morphology and phylogeny of Adephaga.

While at Illinois, Bell became friends with 'Butterfly' Bob Snetsinger.

Through him, Bell developed interests in life history and larval biology.

He also became interested in ecology and became president of the department's ecology club.

Following the completion of his Ph.D., Bell was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to go to India.

Before he could take this up, though, he was called for national service, and spent two years at Fort Dietrich, Maryland, then known as America's 'Germ Warfare Centre'.

Spending a significant amount of time working with fleas, he discovered a rapid way to differentiate males from females.

On discharge, he joined the University of Vermont (UVM), lecturing on field zoology, invertebrate zoology, entomology and mountain ecology.

1956

In the summer of 1956, he went collecting insects in Mexico with Don Van Horn.

It was here that he discovered his first undescribed rhysodine beetle.

This led to a lifelong fascination which established him as the world expert on these particular beetles.

In the following year, he married Joyce Elaine Rockenbach of Whitestone, Queens, New York City.

The two became inseparable companions in the pursuit of entomology.

1960

During the 1960s, they began an active program to document the arthropod fauna of Vermont.

Their work built the UVM Entomological Collection into a significant resource for Northern New England.

1970

In the 1970s and 1980s, Ross and Joyce extended the boundaries for their entomological work beyond Vermont, stretching as far as New Zealand and Papua New Guinea.

1980

An issue of ZooKeys was published as a Festschrift for Ross and Joyce Bell, following a meeting of coleopterists held in celebration of their work and of Ross's 80th birthday.

The Coleopterists Society offers an annual Ross Taylor Bell and Joyce Rockenbach Bell Research Grant for "an outstanding proposal for beetle research whose work would otherwise not be funded", favouring taxonomy or systematics.

Bell is primarily known for his lifelong fascination with the beetle subfamily Rhysodinae.

Of the 350 known species, Bell identified and classified some 260 of them.

He and Joyce Bell also published a significant number of papers, including:

2000

Bell retired from UVM in 2000, but continued to teach a field course in entomology for a further four years.

He and his wife continued to study entomology, and in particular rhysodines, until his death.

Ross Bell died in Shelburne, Vermont, at the age of 90, survived by Joyce.