 City
Bug. Exploring Urban Biodiversity. University of California, Berkeley,
and McClymonds High School. A marvelous site on insects of the San Francisco
Bay region particularly for younger readers. You'll find pictures, descriptions,
a virtual insect collection, and much more. Very informative and very
attractive.
Bugbios. Dexter Sear.
A wonderful general introduction to the insects with photographs and information
about the major groups. Kids will find this site particularly interesting.
Be sure to check out the section entitled cedigest for a series of articles
on a variety of insect related topics.
The site is very attractively done.
Insects
and Human Society. B.S. Carroll and T.P. Mack. Insects and Human Society
is a lecture course at Virginia Tech on insects and their impact on man.
A wide variety of insect topics are covered including systematics, biology,
ecology, and economic entomology. Choose "Lecture Topics" from
the home page and proceed from there to the topic of your choice.
Introduction
to the Identification of Insects and Related Arthropods. P. M. Choate.
This is a very large (1.1 megabytes) Adobe Acrobat (pdf) document containing
illustrations and a key to the orders of insects of North America. The
document may be large, but if you are interested in insects, well worth
the time to download it.
Collecting
and Preserving Insects and Mites. Systematic Entomology Laboratory,
USDA. This is the latest version of the classic manual on collecting and
preserving insects compiled by the staff of the Systematic Entomology
Laboratory. This manual may be accessed as web pages or as a pdf (Adobe
Acrobat) file. This is definitely the place to go if you want to learn
how to collect insects.
Natural
History of Insects. Entomology 10. Rick Redak. Natural History of
Insects contains a synopsis of the orders of insects with information
on ecology, biology, morphology, and physiology. This site was apparently
preprared for a general entomology course at the University of California
at Riverside.
Social
Insects World Wide Web. American Museum of Natural History. This site
from the American Museum is an attempt to organize the information about
the social insects on the World Wide Web, although it is dominated by
wasps and ants. You'll find a very useful glossary of entomological terms,
collections, anatomy, figures of ants, movies, online publications, and
much more.
Book
of Insect Records. University of Florida. This site has the largest,
the smallest, the fastest, the dumbest. In other words you can find the
best and the worst of the insects at this site.
Featured Creatures.
Thomas R. Fasulo, University of Florida. A very nice website featuring
illustrations and information on a wide variety of insect species including
pests and those including because they are interesting. You can search
by common name or scientific name.
Entomology
on World Wide Web. Colorado State University. A large collection of
links to web sites on entomology.
Entomology
Index of Internet Resources. Iowa State University. An extremely comprehensive
listing of entomological resources of all types on the world wide web.
Common
Names of Insects in Canada. Entomological Society of Canada. The official
list of the common names for common or economically important insects
in Canada.
Terrestrial
Invertebrates - Insects. Catalina Island Conservancy Intranet. An
introduction to the insects of Santa Catalina Island, California.
University
of Delaware On-line Insect Database. Short, synoptic information about
several orders of insects and a key to the orders of insects.
Biohaven.
This site has a large collection of photographs and sounds of insects
from around the world. Some information can also be found here.
Insect
Image Gallery. Scott Camazine, Pennsylvania State Department of Entomology.
A gallery of pictures of insects.
The
Virtual Insectary. Kenneth J. Stein. Photographs of insects with information
on each.
Insect
Drawings at Illinois. University of Illinois. Figures of insects.
Colorado
State University Entomology. MPEG movies of various insects.
Aquatic Insect
Photographs by Thomas Ames Jr. A collection of photographs of aquatic
insects with a little information about each. |
