September 3, 2012

During his thirty-one years as head of the Department of Entomology at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville (Washington County), William J. Baerg published a number of small books and seventy-five scientific papers. Much of his work on spiders, tarantulas, scorpions, and other arthropods shed new light on these largely ignored creatures. One of his most widely used publications was Introduction to Applied Entomology.