J. G. Myers

John Golding Myers was a British entomologist. He was born near Rugby, Warwickshire on 22 October 1897 and died on 3 February 1942 in Sudan.

In 1911 Myers' parents moved to New Zealand, where he did well at school, winning a scholarship to Victoria University College in Wellington. During the First World War he served in Europe in the New Zealand Expeditionary Force. Afterwards, he returned to Wellington to complete his studies, obtaining the B.Sc. and M.Sc degrees. From 1919 until 1924 Myers was employed as entomologist in the Biological Division of the New Zealand Department of Agriculture, where he worked on the cattle tick and other pests.

In 1922, Myers married Iris H. Woodhouse in Wellington, with whom he had two daughters and a son.

In 1924 Myers won the coveted honour of an 1851 Exhibition Scholarship for New Zealand and elected to go to Harvard University. There he worked at the entomological laboratory of the Bussey Institution, eventually obtaining the degree of Sc.D. In 1925 Myers came to England to represent the New Zealand Government at the Second Imperial Entomological Conference. Afterwards he went to France at the request of his government to study the natural enemies of the pear leaf-curling midge. In the following year he was appointed to the staff of the Imperial Institute of Entomology to organize the breeding of parasites of injurious insects for export to the Dominions and colonies of the British Empire. He did notable work on the parasites of the blow-fly and of the timber-infesting wood wasps, which made possible their export to Australia and New Zealand.

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