Jean R. Adams., Ph.D., is a Research Entomologist with the U.S Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Plant Sciences Institute, Insect Biocontrol Laboratory at Beltsville, Maryland. Dr. Adams graduate from Rutgers with a B.S in Agricultural Research with a minor in horticulture, and received her Ph.D in 1962.

Jean-Robert Bonami, Dr. es Sc., is Head of the Department of Marine Invertebrate Pathology in the Laboratory of Comparative Pathology at the University of Montpellier II., Sciences et Techniques du Languedoc, France. Dr. Bonami received his Licence and Maitrise es Sciences from the University of Montpellier II in 1986 and his Doctorat D'Etat es Science in 1980.