Edith Marion Patch (1876-1954) was the American entomologist and author of: Dame Bug and Her Babies (1913), Bird Stories (1920), Desert Neighbors (1937), Food Catalogue of Aphids of the World (1938) and Prairie Neighbors (with Carroll Lane Fenton) (1940). Edith Patch earned a masters degree from the University of Maine in 1910. She was elected the first woman president of the Entomological Society of America in 1930.