Grace Sandhouse

Grace Adelbert Sandhouse (1896–1940) was an American entomologist.

Life and career Sandhouse was raised in Monticello, Iowa. She attended the University of Colorado Boulder, where she graduated in 1920, while working for Theodore Cockerell. Cockerell introduced Sandhouse to apiology, the study of bees. She proceeded to earn a master's from the University of Colorado Boulder and a PhD at Cornell University. After graduation she became a Junior Entomologist at the United States Department of Agriculture's Bureau of Entomology, working in the Division of Insect Identification.

Publications

The North American bees of the genus Osmia (Hymenoptera: Apoidea). Washington, D.C.: The Entomological society of Washington (1939) "A Review of the Nearctic Wasps of the Genus Trypoxylon (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae)". American Midland Naturalist, Volume 24, Number 1 (July, 1940), pages 133–176. The Type Species of the Genera and Subgenera of Bees. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press (1943) The bees of the genus Agapostemon (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) occurring in the United States. Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine (1936)