Entomologist, Arachnologist, Myriapodologist 

Insect Cuisine & Entomophagy Research 

Division of Invertebrate Zoology, American Museum of Natural History, (Retired) 

President and Forensic Entomologist 

Entsult Associates, Inc. 

The New York Entomological Society, Inc. 

Treasurer & Monthly Meeting Organizer 

 

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Louis Sorkin is a graduate of the University of Connecticut, with a Master of Science – MS Entomology and Bachelor of Arts – BA Biological Sciences, Entomology. He has spent 42 years in the Invertebrate Zoology Department at the American Museum of Natural History. While at the museum, Lou worked primarily with the spider collection, maintaining, and organizing this vast collection and assisting many arachnologists from all over the world with their research. Besides his scientific career, Lou has been a longstanding educator for the museum, promoting insects and other arthropods to school groups, and the public. He was often seen walking around the museum wearing tobacco hornworms in hope that kids and parents will look up from their phones and ask questions about these blue caterpillars! Lou has been active in entomophagy (eating insects), organizing several bug-eating events as well as forensic entomology, with some investigations he has been involved with having aired on television. He has been an active member of the New York Entomological Society for 40 years and is their treasurer and monthly meeting organizer. Lou's true passions is the common bed bug, and over the past 30 years, Lou has been studying the life cycle and natural history of these notorious insects by examining infestations in homes, businesses, hotels and raising his own bed bug colony for research and education.