 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.
SPECIFIC
ANTS
Myrmecology. The
Science of Ants. Andre Schmidt. This is the ultimate site for all
things "ant". It includes general biology, nesting, behavior,
foraging, artificial ant nests, books, and other material. Frames.
Ask
Orkin - Ants. General information about the common species of ants
found around the house.
Japanese
Ants. Color Image Database. Although this site is Japanese, it has
many great photographs of ants as well as a guide to identifying Japanese
ants of some use to North American users.
FORMIS. A
Bibliography of Ant Literature. This site contains a downloadable
database of ant literature for both the PC and the MacIntosh. See the
Introduction at the site for instructions. The file is very large.
Living
with Ants. Museum of Comparative Zoology. This site duplicates an
exhibition on ants at the Museum of Comparative Zoology in Cambridge,
Massachusetts. It includes a great deal of good information, but the photos
are not as good as they might have been.
Ant
Exhibition. An exhibit on ants at the Museum of Natural History in
Vienna, Austria.
Department
of Behavioral Physiology and Sociobiology. Professor Hölldobler.
A site on the sociobiology of ants.
Carpenter
Ant. University of Kentucky. Biology and control of Carpenter Ants
(Camponotus).
BEES
Bumblebees
of Evergreen. Matthew Kweskin. Information, figures, and a key to
the bumblebees (Apidae, Bombus) of western Washington.
The
Bumblebee Pages. L. Smith. Although these bumblebees are british,
not north american, you can still learn quite a bit about bumblebees in
general, their biology and their life cycle from this site.
SAWFLIES
Virginia
Cooperative Extension. General information on and photographs of sawflies.
Sawfly
Literature. David Smith and Cathy Anderson, Systematic Entomology
Laboratory, U.S. Department of Agriculture. A searchable database on literature
on sawflies.
Pine
Sawflies (Diprionidae). Alexi Sharov. General information on and photographs
of Pine Sawflies of the family Diprionidae.
VELVET ANTS (MUTILLIDAE)
Michigan
Entomological Society. Information and images of velvet ants of the
family Mutillidae.
WASPS
Yellowjackets
of the Northwestern United States. Matthew Kweskin. Keys, information,
and figures of the subfamily Vespinae of the Vespidae of the Northwestern
United States.
Checklist
of the Social Vespidae of Michigan. A checklist of the subfamilies
Vespinae and Polistinae of the family Vespidae for Michigan.
OTHER FAMILIES
The
Stephanidae Homepage. Alexandre P. Aguiar, Ohio State University.
This small, but very interesting, family of parasitic Hymenoptera is covered
in this site. You will find a world catalog of the species and genera,
information about the family and its taxonomy, and pictures of representative
species.
The
Pelecinus Project. N.F. Johnson and L. Musetti. If you live or grew
up in the eastern half of the United States you will probably recognize
this distinctive parasitic was of the family Pelecinidae with its black
color and very long abdomen. This web site has information about the species
of the genus Pelecinus, their biologies, distribution, and temporal distribution.
Encyrtidae.
Andrey Sharkov, Ohio State University. The Encyrtidae are a large family
of minute chalcidoid wasps. This web site has information about the family,
their morphology and biology, collecting tips, and links to other related
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