Құбылыстар тарихы: Entomologiя және жәндіктерге адамның қызығушылығы

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Entomology, the scientific study of insects and closely related terrestrial arthropods, has been impelled by the necessity of societies to protect themselves from insect borne diseases, crop losses to pest insects, and insect related discomfort, as well as by people's natural curiosity. Though many significant developments in the field happened only recently, in the 19th–20th centuries, the history of entomology stretches back to prehistory.

13,000 BC – The earliest evidence of man's interest in insects is from rock paintings. The insects depicted are bees. A carving of a cave cricket from the Cave of the Trois Frères is similarly dated. 1800–1700 BC – Bees were significant in other early civilisations, for instance at Malia, Crete, where jewellery depicts two golden bees holding a drop of honey.

Carlo Crivelli draws an association between flies and death in a painting of the Madonna and Child.

Although the earliest pictorial record of a natural history cabinet is the engraving in Ferrante Imperato's Dell'Historia Naturale (Naples 1599), such collections became more than rudimentary early in this century. 1503 – The Grandes Heures of Anne of Brittany has accurate marginal illustrations of plants and insects. 1505 – Albrecht Dürer paints a stag beetle. 1551 – Zoologist Conrad Gesner publishes the first volume of [[Historiae animalium (Gesner) or History of Animals. The work includes some mention of insects. 1556 – Guillaume Rondelet, a professor in Montpellier, publishes De insectis et zoophytis liber. 1575 – Joris Hoefnagel begins Animalia Rationalia et Insecta, finished in 1580. 1578 – Li Shizhen includes very many insects amongst the 1,000 animals described in Bencao Gangmu.