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About Alexander Craw
- Alexander Craw (3 August 1850 – 28 June 1908) was a pioneer American economic entomologist.
- He was the first American entomologist to work in quarantine protection against foreign pests arriving by ship to San Francisco, California.
- Along with Albert Koebele he was involved in the introduction of Rodolia cardinalis from Australia to control Icerya purchasi.
- He was also involved in the introduction of Rhyzobius ventralis to control the black scale, Saissetia oleae.Craw was born in Ayr, South Ayrshire, Scotland where he trained in horticulture.
- He worked in the Royal nurseries at Ascot and at Martins and Son, Cottingham before he moved to California in 1873 and worked as a horticulturist there.
- After two years in San Diego, he worked at the Wolfskill orange groves in Los Angeles and became a member of the Horticultural Commission of California.
- From 1890 he worked in the port of San Francisco as a quarantine officer to prevent the entry of potential pests.
- In 1904 he quit his California position and took up a position as superintendent of entomology to the board of agriculture and forestry in Hawaii where he established quarantine procedures.
- His position in California was taken up by E.M.
- Ehrhorn.
- Craw died of kidney failure at Wawona in the Yosemite valley at the home of his sister.
- His papers were destroyed in fires following the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.
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