Via Lori Bushway’s Community Horticulture blog.
The New Yorker magazine devoted an article to the retirement of Carolyn Klass, who for 38 years was Cornell’s insect pest diagnostician in the Department of Entomology.
The insect-identification service started in 1971, and Klass has been the program’s sole diagnostician from the start. People sent her bugs — or what they thought were bugs — to analyze. But often these items were not insects at all but fabric, cereal, skin particles or scabs.