Jerauld Armington Manter (December 30, 1889 – August 21, 1990) was an American professor of ornithology and entomology at the University of Connecticut from 1912 to 1953.

Manter was offered a teaching and laboratory assistant position at the Connecticut Agricultural College by President Charles L. Beach, who hired him without an interview or even meeting him.

[3] Manter was a lifelong photographer who spent five decades documenting all aspects of university life and history as well as the town and residents of Storrs.

[2] He was known for his knack, developed over many years, of predicting bird migration patterns—"his accuracy was legend on campus," reported the Hartford Courant.

The couple had three children: Audrey M., Jerauld T., and Stanley P.[7] Following retirement, Manter remained an active photographer and continued to live on Gurleyville Road in Storrs.

A species of fungus gnat is named after him: the Apemon manteri, which entomologist Charles Willison Johnson discovered in 1930 in Mansfield while collecting specimens with Manter along the Willimantic River.