Arthur V. Evans, D.Sc., is the former director of the Ralph M. Parsons Insect Zoo at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. The author of numerous papers on the systematics and biology of scarab beetles (Family Scarabaeidae), he now focuses his energies on natural history writing and photography as a means of introducing the general public to the fascinating world of the most successful animals on Earth, including the two part Introduction and Field Guide to California Beetles written with Jim Hogue (books).

Art currently lives in Richmond, Virginia and is a Research Associate of the U.S. National Museum of Natural History.

Charles L. Bellamy, D.Sc., is a Senior Insect Biosystematist with the Plant Pest Diagnostic Laboratory, California Department of Food and Agriculture, Sacramento. Considered one of the world's authorities on jewel beetles (family Buprestidae), he has traveled extensively throughout the world, to collect, observe and photograph various species, in search of clues to their evolutionary development. The author of nearly 185 publications (list) including several larger volumes (books).


Chuck currently lives in Sacramento and is a Research Associate of the U.S. National Museum of Natural History.