Fernando López Tuero Explained

Fernando López Tuero
Birth Date:1857
Death Date:1907
San Juan, Puerto Rico
Nationality:Puerto Rican
Occupation:Agricultural scientist and agronomist

Fernando López Tuero (1857–1907) was an agricultural scientist and agronomist who discovered the bug (believed at first to be a germ) which was destroying Puerto Rico sugar canes.[1]

Agricultural epidemic

In the latter part of the 19th Century, an epidemic was affecting the agricultural industry of Puerto Rico. Among the crops affected was the sugar cane, whose main product "sugar" was vital to Puerto Rico's economy.[1] The Spanish colonial government created an emergency commission composed of scientists, which included Dr. Agustín Stahl and Fernando López Tuero, to study the situation. Stahl concluded that the epidemic was caused by a "germ" in the terrain, however his findings were inconclusive. In 1894 Fernando López Tuero, the director and head agronomist of the Agronomical Station of Río Piedras, discovered that the cause of the epidemic was the white grub (Phyllophaga).[1] [2] [3]

The Phyllophaga is a very large genus (more than 260 species) of New World scarab beetles in the subfamily Melolonthinae. These beetles are nocturnal, emerging in great numbers during the night. The adults are chafers, feeding on foliage of trees and shrubs. They may cause significant damage when emerging in large numbers. The larvae (called white grubs) feed on the roots of grasses and other plants.[4]

López Tuero's scientific investigations have been included in Madre Teresa Cortés Zavala's "Fernando López Tuero, La Revista de Agricultura, Industria y Comercio de Puerto Rico y el progreso agrícola de 1885-1898" written for the Escuela de Historia; Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo.[5]

Written works

López Tuero voiced strong beliefs about the function of a state, saying it was mainly to protect people's private property. His views were drafted into the 1878 Municipal Law which organized many of the police functions around just that, protect the large farms of landowners in the countryside.[6] Some of his works include:[7]

See also

Notes

  1. Web site: 2008-10-04 . Historia de la investigación científica en Puerto Rico . Rigau Pérez, José G. . CienciaPR . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110930192644/http://www.cienciapr.org/history . 2011-09-30 .
  2. Web site: El aroma económicamente embrujador del café y el olvido de la buena dieta . 2007-06-23 . bot: unknown . https://web.archive.org/web/20070623111054/http://hcentroamerica.fcs.ucr.ac.cr/cong/mesas/cong7/docs/2_3.doc . June 23, 2007 ., Retrieved October 4, 2008
  3. Book: Entomological Society of America . Journal of Economic Entomology . Entomological Society of America . 1913 . 12 October 2019 . 252.
  4. Web site: June Beetle / June Bug - Cirrus Digital Imaging. Red Planet Inc.. 2008-06-21.
  5. Web site: Seminario Internacional: "Los caminos del progreso en el Caribe hispano contemporáneo: economía, ciencia y cultura" . 2011-08-21 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120110072749/http://www.actualidadhistorica.com/noticias/historia-contemporanea/248-seminario-internacional-qlos-caminos-del-progreso-en-el-caribe-hispano-contemporaneo-economia-ciencia-y-culturaq.html . 2012-01-10 . dead .
  6. Book: Carrasquillo, R.E. . Our Landless Patria: Marginal Citizenship and Race in Caguas, Puerto Rico, 1880-1910 . University of Nebraska Press . 2006 . 978-0-8032-1537-5 . 12 October 2019 . 49.
  7. http://www.iberlibro.com/buscar-libro/autor/l%F3pez-tuero-fernando/ Written works
  8. Book: Ortiz Cuadra, Cruz Miguel. Eating Puerto Rico: A History of Food, Culture, and Identity . University of North Carolina Press . Latin America in Translation/en Traducción/em Tradução . 2013 . 978-1-4696-0882-2 . 12 October 2019 . 322.
  9. Book: Meyer, H.H.B. . Select list of references on sugar: chiefly in its economic aspects . Govt. Print. Off. . 1910 . 12 October 2019 . 214.

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