Insect Pathology: Volume 2

It is a human characteristic to name everything, and this includes the bacteria. Bacteria, of course, are not aware of this, so their taxonomy is a struggle between the effort of man for order and the apparent "disorder" of bacteria. A brief consideration of the taxonomy of entomogenous bacteria must begin with common problems of bacterial taxonomy as a whole, which in many respects differ from those known to the entomologist in his systematic study of insects.