Tags: Entomologist.
Naomi E. Pierce (born 1954) is the Hessel Professor of Biology at Harvard University and a world authority on butterflies. Pierce is the university’s Curator of Lepidoptery a position once held by Vladimir Nabokov.Pierce studies the relationship between butterfly larvae and ants as well as the genetic trends within the species in order to understand the process of evolution.Pierce and collaborators Corrie Moreau and Charles D.