Joseph Douglas Hood

Joseph Douglas Hood (28 November 1889 – 22 October 1966) was an American entomologist and a specialist on the thrips (Thysanoptera).

Hood was born in Laramie, Wyoming to dentist Thomas Henry and Eva Maria Josephine Dickson.

At the age of eighteen he worked part-time at the Illinois Natural History Survey and described a new species of thrips.

[1] Hood made large collections of Thysanoptera, making trips to South America, Mexico, and the Caribbean region.

[1] Hood married Helen Madge Hincher, who was dean of women at Ithaca College, in 1930.