George Salt FRS (12 December 1903, Loughborough, Leicestershire – 17 February 2003, Cambridge, UK) was an English entomologist and ecologist.
[2] Born as the oldest brother of three siblings,[3] George Salt in April 1911 moved with his family to Calgary in Alberta, Canada.
After completing his first term, he worked in Cuba at the Harvard Biological Station, where he did research on sugarcane borers and ant mimicry.
[1] Two years later he was employed as an entomologist by the United Fruit Company to investigate ways of controlling the banana pests Colaspis hypochlora (a leaf beetle) and Castniomera atymnius humboldti (a moth) in Colombia.
Improved drainage and carefully planned weeding resulted in partial eradication of the grass and considerable reduction in the damage caused by the beetle.
[6] During WW II George Salt did research on biocontrol of wire worms which threatened Britain's cereal crops.
[2] The monograph, written as part of a series intended for biologists who were not overly specialized, introduced George Salt's research to a wider audience.