Paul David Hurd Jr. (April 2, 1921 – March 12, 1982) was an American entomologist who specialized the Hymenoptera of western North America.
Per the Smithsonian Institution, where he worked as insect curator and which holds a collection of his papers, Hurd was most known for his work on carpenter bees, and cucurbit pollinators, but also published on velvet ants, spider wasps, Anthophoridae, leaf-cutter and mason bees, and sweat bees.
[1] Hurd was a veteran of World War II,[2] a Guggenheim Fellow in 1959,[3] and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
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