# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/justin-orvel-schmidt
# Generated: 2026-08-14T12:59:28.611Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/justin-orvel-schmidt"
name: "Justin Orvel Schmidt"
slug: "justin-orvel-schmidt"
description: "Justin Orvel Schmidt was an American entomologist, co-author of Insect Defenses: Adaptive Mechanisms and Strategies of Prey and Predators, author of The Sting of the Wild, and creator of the Schmidt sting pain index. Schmidt studied honey bee nutrition, chemical communication, physiology, ecology, and behavior at the Carl Hayden Bee Research Center in Tucson, Arizona, before taking lead and devoting full-time to The Southwestern Biological Institute in 2006. As research director of the Southwest Biological Institute, he studied the chemical and behavioral defenses of ants, wasps, and arachnids."
tagline: "American entomologist"
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birthDate: "1947-03-23"
deathDate: "2023-02-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump