Overal, William L.

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, Belém, Pará Telephone: 0055 (0)91 3217-6114 E-Mail: overal@museu-goeldi.br

Bill Overal has always liked bugs, and so it is no wonder that he became an entomologist. And what better place is there to study these critters than the Brazilian rainforest? He works at the Emilio Goeldi Museum, in Belém, portal city to the fantastic and important Amazon. Bill studied biology at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois , before moving on to graduate studies at the University of Kansas ,in Lawrence. He wandered the world ( Europe and Africa ) before entering the Goeldi Museum in 1976. In his attempts to get folks to appreciate insects, Bill has written over 60 scientific papers and 90 newspaper articles on our arthropod friends.

PUBLICATIONS

 * Hermann, H. R.; Blum, M. S.; Wheeler, J. W.; Overal, W. L.; Schmidt, J. O.; Chao, J. 1984. Comparative anatomy and chemistry of the venom apparatus and mandibular glands in Dinoponera grandis (Guérin) and Paraponera clavata (F.) (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Ponerinae). Ann. Entomol. Soc. Am. 77: 272-279