{"id":32,"name":"James Lasswell & Forest Mitchell","url":"","description":"James\u2019 fascination with nature led him to receive degrees in both Botany and Zoology.\r\n\r\nHe spent the majority of his professional career working at the Texas AgriLife Research Station in Stephenville, TX, much of that time working with Dr. Forrest Mitchell on problems related to insect transmitted diseases of plants.\r\n\r\nAn avid outdoorsman, James became interested in dragonflies while a graduate student at Texas A&M University and was able to further his fascination with these creatures while working on a wetlands research project with Dr. Mitchell.\u00a0James and Forrest shared authorship on a number of journal articles, but enjoyed most being able to get a coffee-table type book on dragonflies published.\r\n\r\nJames is now retired, but continues to give presentations and guide nature tours in both Texas and New Mexico.\u00a0 James\u2019 hobbies include landscape oil painting, golfing, fishing, and photography.\r\n\r\nForrest Mitchell\u2019s childhood fascination with insects has translated into a career in Entomology.\r\n\r\nHe is the project leader for entomological research at the Texas AgriLife Research Station in Stephenville, TX and a Professor in the Department of Entomology at Texas A&M University.\u00a0 He has been interested in dragonflies even before he could spell the word.\r\n\r\nA Texas native, he attended school at Texas A&M University and Louisiana State University before returning to Texas to work in Stephenville.\r\n\r\nThough his primary work is on sustainable mitigation of insect transmitted diseases of plants, he was given the opportunity to work with dragonflies while conducting a wetlands research study.\r\n\r\nHe, along with James Lasswell, co-authored a popular coffee-table type book entitled \u201cA Dazzle of Dragonflies\u201d inspired by their work on the wetlands study.\u00a0 Dr. Mitchell\u2019s hobbies include gardening, water gardening, woodworking and photography.","link":"https:\/\/www.quickreferencepublishing.com\/wholesale\/author\/james_lasswell\/","slug":"james_lasswell","avatar_urls":{"24":"https:\/\/www.quickreferencepublishing.com\/wholesale\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2011\/09\/Lasswell-small.jpg","48":"https:\/\/www.quickreferencepublishing.com\/wholesale\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2011\/09\/Lasswell-small.jpg","96":"https:\/\/www.quickreferencepublishing.com\/wholesale\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2011\/09\/Lasswell-small.jpg"},"meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickreferencepublishing.com\/wholesale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickreferencepublishing.com\/wholesale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users"}]}}