Archive of past Queensland Entomologists
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Neil GOUGH (1946-1992)
Neil was born and grew up in Ipswich, attending Ipswich Grammar School. Began collecting butterflies as a boy. Joined CSR in 1965 and worked at Condong Sugar Mill near Murwillumbah as Junior Field Officer. Collected rare Australian fritillary there. Started BSc at UQ in 1966, graduating in entomology in 1968. Completed Honours in insect ecology at Waite Institute, Adelaide 1969. Spent most of 1970 (with future wife Mary) collecting and breeding mosquitos for the Bishop Museum in remote parts of PNG. Returned to Waite in 1971 to undertake PhD on ecology of eriococcid scale insects, awarded 1975. Spent 1975-1976 travelling and collecting through Indonesia, Malaysia and overland to England, where worked briefly at Imperial College’s Silwood Park field station. Appointed as Entomologist to Queensland DPI in 1977, stationed first at Mareeba to work on white-fringed weevil in peanuts and a silvanid pest of sorghum, later named Silvanolomus goughi. Assisted Ross Storey in building the Mareeba reference collection. Transferred to Indooroopilly Laboratory, Brisbane, in 1982 to work on pests of floriculture and ornamentals. Good collaborator with boundless enthusiasm who combined classical training in ecology with strong natural history background. At the time of sudden death in 1992 was progressing studies on orchid beetles, Geraldton Wax pests and use of predatory mites in rose culture. Served on ESQ Council 1982-90 and was President in 1989. Instigated ESQ Student Award and recommenced ESQ field trips.
Obituaries: Anon. 1992. News Bulletin of the Entomological Society of Queensland 20:73-75, 98-99; Monteith, G.B. 1993. Myrmecia 29(1): 6-7.