Roy R. Snelling (September 30, 1934 — April 21, 2008) was an internationally renowned American entomologist who studied Hymenoptera, mainly ants, wasps and bees.
Snelling wrote that he was much influenced by W. S. Creighton's important 1950 volume The Ants of North America.
[1] In his career, Snelling would collaborate many times with Creighton, whose ant collection is now housed at the Los Angeles county museum.
Before going to the Los Angeles County museum, he spent time in the United States Army (1959) and as an inspector with the California Department of Food and Agriculture.
Together with Charles Leonard Hogue, Snelling was a technical adviser for the Academy Award-winning documentary The Hellstrom Chronicle.