Paul D. Hurd Jr.

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. Hurd was a veteran of World War II, a Guggenheim Fellow in 1959, and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.