Insect Links
- Australian sites: general insect information
- International sites: general insect information
- Entomology societies and clubs
- Entomology departments and collections: Australia
- Entomology departments and collections: International
- Agriculture and pest management
- Collecting and keeping insects
- Forensic Entomology
- Online identification guides and keys: Australia
- Online identification guides and keys: International
- Entomology Glossaries and terms
- Insects in history and culture
- Insect directories and databases
- Bites and stings: medical information sites
Australian sites: general insect information
- Explore Australian Museum Online: Insects - fact sheets, FAQs and other insect-related resources
http://www.amonline.net.au/explore/insects.htm - CSIRO Division of Entomology Website Australian Ants Online
http://www.ento.csiro.au/science/ants/default.htm - A guide to the stick insects of Australia
http://www.acay.com.au/~pmiller/ - B-Eye - the world through the eyes of a honey bee: Division of Botany and Zoology, Australian National University
http://cvs.anu.edu.au/andy/beye/beyehome.html - Butterflies of Sydney: Faculty of Science University of Technology
http://linus.socs.uts.edu.au/~don/larvae/sydbuts.html - Caterpillars of Australia - Lepidoptera larvae
http://linus.socs.uts.edu.au/~don/larvae/larvae.html - Caterpillars of Australian Butterflies
http://linus.socs.uts.edu.au/~don/larvae/butter.html - Caterpillars of Australian Moths
http://linus.socs.uts.edu.au/~don/larvae/moths.html - What is an Insect? The Entomological Society of Victoria
http://home.vicnet.net.au/~vicento/educ.htm - Australian Moths Online
http://www.ento.csiro.au/gallery/moths/albums.php - CSIRO Entomology: Australian Moths Online
http://www.ento.csiro.au/gallery/moths/albums.php
International sites: general insect information
- A Checklist of the Insects of North America: NEARCTICA
http://www.neartica.com/nomina/main.htm - A Beginner's Guide to Dragonflies: Worldwide Dragonfly Association
http://powell.colgate.edu/wda/Beginners_Guide.htm - Antbase: News and links to databases involved in work on ants and other hymenoptera
http://research.amnh.org/entomology/social_insects/mainpage.html - Asilidae Homepage ( Insecta : Diptera ) - information on robber flies
http://www.geller-grimm.de/asilidae.htm - BEE-L Discussion Group: forum for the discussion of practical beekeeping and bee research
http://www.bee-l.com/ - Beetles: Beetle enthusiasts page (personal site)
http://www.source.at/beetles/ - Blattodea (Cockroaches): North Carolina State University
http://www.cals.ncsu.edu/course/ent425/compendium/roach.html - Book of Insect Records: University of Florida - insect 'champions' and their achievements
http://ufbir.ifas.ufl.edu/ - Carabid Discussion Group: forum for sharing information regarding ground beetles
http://www.cnr.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/carabid - www.coleoptera.org: for Entomologists and others with an interest in Coleoptera (Beetles)
http://www.coleoptera.org/index.htm - Directory of Entomologists with Pacific Interests Bishop Museum
http://www.pacificscience.org/pacentodir.html - Entomo-L Mailing List: Department of Entomology, Iowa State University
http://www.ent.iastate.edu/mailinglist/entomo-l/ - Entomology for Beginners: for young children (personal website)
http://www.bijlmakers.com/entomology/begin.htm - General Entomology On-line Course: North Carolina State University, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
http://www.cals.ncsu.edu/course/ent425/ - Hawaiian Terrestrial Arthropod Checklist: Bishop Museum
http://hbs.bishopmuseum.org/arthrosearch.html - Hemiptera - Suborder Homoptera: College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, North Carolina State University
http://www.cals.ncsu.edu/course/ent425/compendium/homopt~1.html - Iowa State Entomology Index: K-12 Educator's Recommended Sites
http://www.ent.iastate.edu/List/k-12_educator_resources.html - Minibeast World of Insects and Spiders: Young Entomologists' Society (YES)
http://members.aol.com/YESedu/welcome.html - Phasmatodea (Walkingsticks / Stick Insects / Leaf Insects / Phasmids): Department of Entomology, NC State University
http://www.cals.ncsu.edu/course/ent425/compendium/stick.html - Tree of Life: Orthoptera (Grasshoppers and Crickets) - Urban Entomology Program
http://www.zoo.utoronto.ca/tree/orthoptera/orthoptera.html - Tree of Life- Insecta (Insects): College of Agriculture, University of Arizona
http://phylogeny.arizona.edu/tree/eukaryotes/animals/arthropoda/
hexapoda/insecta.html - Wonderful World of Insects - Gordon's Entomological Home Page
http://earthlife.net/insects/ - Zoraptera (Angel Insects): North Carolina State University, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
http://www.cals.ncsu.edu/course/ent425/compendium/zorapt.html - Microcosmos.org.uk: a site dedicated to phasmids and mantids
http://www.microcosmos.org.uk/main.htm
Entomology societies and clubs
- Australian Entomological Society (AES)
http://www.agric.nsw.gov.au/Hort/ascu/myrmecia/society.htm - The International Bee Research Association (IBRA)
http://www.cf. ac.uk/ibra/ - Entomological Society of America
http://www.entsoc.org/ - British Butterfly Conservation Society
http://www.butterfly-conservation.org/ - Butterfly Conservation South Australia
http://users.chariot.net.au/~rgrund/bcsa.htm - International Heteropterists' Society
http://entomology.si.edu/IHS/home.lasso - Iowa State Entomology Index: Professional Societies
http://www.ent.iastate.edu/list/societies.html - The Amateur Entomologists' Society Bug Club
http://www.ex.ac.uk/bugclub - The Phasmid Study Group
http://earthlife.net/insects/psg.html - The Royal Entomological Society - United Kingdom
http://www.royensoc.demon.co.uk/ - Yahoo!Clubs- Insects
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/insects/
Entomology departments and collections: Australia
- Council of Heads of Australian Entomology Collections (CHAEC): Museum of Victoria (includes New Zealand collections)
http://pioneer.mov.vic.gov.au/chaec/open.html - Entomology at the University of Queensland
http://www.zen.uq.edu.au/entomology/ - Blattodea (cockroaches) in the University of Queensland Insect Collection
http://www.uq.edu.au/entomology/museum/blattodea/blattode.html - Faculty of Agriculture and Natural Resource Sciences: Waite Institute, University of Adelaide
http://www.waite.adelaide.edu.au/ - Macleay Museum Invertebrate Unit
http://www.usyd.edu.au/su/macleay/cinsect.htm - South Australian Museum Collections- Invertebrates
http://www.samuseum.sa.gov.au/invert.htm - Terrestrial Invertebrates: Western Australian Museum
http://www.museum.wa.gov.au/collections/terr_invert/terr_invert.htm - The Australian National Insect Collection: CSIRO Division of Entomology
http://www.ento.csiro.au/research/natres/anic.html - The University of Queensland Insect Collection
http://www.uq.oz.au/entomology/uqic.html
Entomology departments and collections: International
- American Museum of Natural History- Entomology
http://research.amnh.org/entomology/ - Bishop Museum's Entomology Home Page
http://www.bishopmuseum.org/research/natsci/ento/ento.html - Canadian National Collection of Insects, Arachnids and Nematodes
http://www.agr.gc.ca/science/ecorc/cnc/index_e.htm - Iowa State Entomology Index: Insect Collections
http://www.ent.iastate.edu/list/insect_collections.html - Iowa State Entomology Index: Institutions
http://www.ent.iastate.edu/list/institutions.html - Texas A & M University Insect Systematics Collection
http://entowww.tamu.edu/research/ressyst4.html
Agriculture and pest management
- New South Wales Agriculture
http://www.agric.nsw.gov.au/ - Agriculture Western Australia- Entomology Website
http://www.agric.wa.gov.au/ento/ - Australian Plague Locust Commission
http://www.affa.gov.au/aplc/ - Centre for Pest Information Technology and Transfer: Department of Entomology, University of Queensland
http://www.cpitt.uq.edu.au/about.htm - Co-operative Research Centre for Tropical Pest Management, Department of Entomology University of Queensland
http://www.tpp.uq.edu.au/index.htm - Centre for Entomological Research and Insecticide Technology - University of New South Wales
http://www.unisearch.com.au/specialist_technical_expertise/cerit/index.asp - Book Lice: Ohio State University - factsheet
http://www.ag.ohio-state.edu/~ohioline/hyg-fact/2000/2080.html - Insect Traps in Conservation Surveys: Western Association for Art Conservation (WAAC), Stanford University
http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/waac/wn/wn13/wn13-1/wn13-108.html - International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (ICIPE)
http://www.icipe.org/cgi-bin/WebObjects/ICIPE.woa/wa/default - Iowa State Entomology Index: Integrated Pest Management
http://www.ent.iastate.edu/list/integrated_pest_management.html - Urban Entomology: Warren Ebeling
http://www.entomology.ucr.edu/ebeling/
Collecting and keeping insects
- Bug Pets: The Bug Club (Amateur Entomologists' Society)
http://www.ex.ac.uk/bugclub/bugpets.html - Making an Insect Collection
http://entowww.tamu.edu/entoweb/collect1.html - Walking Sticks: The Perfect Insect Pet - Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta
http://www.biology.ualberta.ca/locke.hp/walk_sticks.htm
Forensic Entomology
Please note - these sites may contain strong graphic images and descriptions.
- Death Online: Australian Museum
www.deathonline.net/decomposition - On Maggots and Murders: Forensic Entomology - Martin Hall, The Natural History Museum, London
http://www.nhm.ac.uk/entomology/features/flies/flies.html - Pastoral putrefaction down on the Body Farm: Autopsy, HBO Documentaries
http://www.hbo.com:80/autopsy/forensic/the_body_farm.html - Forensic Entomology: Department of Agriculture Western Australia
http://www.agric.wa.gov.au/ento/forensic.htm - Dating Death: ABC Great moments in Science - archived information
http://www.abc.net.au/science/k2/moments/gmis9816.html - Forensic Entomology Pages, International
http://folk.uio.no/mostarke/forens_ent/forensic_entomology.html - Forensic Entomology - Insects in Legal Investigations: Dr. J. H. Byrd, American Board of Forensic Entomology
http://www.forensic-entomology.com/ - Insects help solve heinous crimes: University of Alabama
http://www.dpo.uab.edu/%7Ejwells/forensic.html
Online insect identification guides and keys: Australia
- Faunanet: Faunakeys - includes keys to Dung Beetles of New South Wales, Heteroptera of Australia, Flower Chafers of New South Wales, Christmas Beetles of New South Wales and Stink Bugs of Australia
http://faunanet.gov.au/faunakeys/ - An Illustrated Key to Economically Important Leafhoppers (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) of Australia - ASCU)
http://www.agric.nsw.gov.au/Hort/ascu/cicadell/ecokey0.htm - A Guide to the Stick Insects of Australia
http://www.acay.com.au/~pmiller/ - Australian Ants Online, CSIRO: Identification
http://www.ento.csiro.au/science/ants/identification.htm - Australian Aquatic Invertebrates Web Keys: CSIRO Division of Entomology
http://www.lucidcentral.com/keys/lwrrdc/public/Aquatics/ - Identification Keys The Agricultural Scientific Collections Unit, New South Wales Agriculture
http://www.agric.nsw.gov.au/Hort/ascu/keys.htm
Online identification guides and keys: International
- General Keys to Insects: College of Agriculture and Natural Sciences. University of Delaware
http://ag.udel.edu/departments/ento/insectdb.htm - Household and Structural Pest Identification: Virginia Tech Entomology Department
http://everest.ento.vt.edu/Facilities/OnCampus/IDLab/id/id-main0.html - Identification Keys & Tools (list of links) - NC State Agnic Systematic Entomology: A Guide To Online Insect Systematic Resources
http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/agnic/sys_entomology/id/keys.html
Entomology Glossaries and terms
- An Entomological Glossary: The Earth Life Web
http://earthlife.net/insects/glossary.html - Butterfly Etymology: The meaning of butterfly names in different languages.
http://www.insects.org/ced4/etymology.html - Buzzwords- A Glossary of Minibeast Terms: Young Entomologists' Society (YES)
http://members.aol.com/YESedu/glossary.html
Insects in history and culture
- Beetles as Religious Symbols
http://www.insects.org/ced2/beetles_rel_sym.html - Beetles in Textiles
http://www.insects.org/ced2/beetles_tex.html - Bugbios - Cultural Entomology
http://www.insects.org/ - Cicadas in Ancient Greece
http://www.insects.org/ced3/cicada_ancgrcult.html - Cicadas in Chinese Folklore
http://www.insects.org/ced3/cicada_chfolk.html - History of Sericulture (silk production) using the moth Bombyx mori
http://www.insects.org/ced1/seric.html - Insects, Disease and History
http://ianrwww.unl.edu/ianr/entomol/history_bug/bughome.htm - Lepidoptera in the Mythology of Native Americans
http://www.insects.org/ced4/mythology.html - Tasty Insect Recipes: Department of Entomology, Iowa State University
http://www.ent.iastate.edu/misc/insectsasfood/intro.html - Use of Insects by Australian Aborigines
http://www.insects.org/ced1/aust_abor.html
Insect directories and databases
- Biosystematic Database of World Diptera (flies)
http://www.sel.barc.usda.gov/diptera/biosys.htm - Butterflies and Moths: Demonstration Data for the Interactive Identification Program Intkey: CSIRO Division of Entomology
http://biodiversity.uno.edu/delta/lep/ - CABIKEY to the Mosquito Genera of the World
http://www.cabi.org/Publishing/Products/CDROM/CABIkey/Mosquito/Index.asp - Catalogs of Ephemeroptera (Mayflies)
http://www.famu.org/mayfly/ - Entomology Checklists Index: Department of Entomology, Iowa State University
http://www.ent.iastate.edu/list/checklists.html - Entomology database library: World List of Terrestrial Arthropod Families, Smithsonian Natural Museum of Natural History
http://entomology.si.edu/Entomology/FamList/search.lasso - Entomology on the World Wide Web
http://www.colostate.edu/Depts/Entomology/links.html - Insects on WWW: Virginia Tech Entomology Department
http://www.isis.vt.edu/~fanjun/text/Links.html - Iowa State Entomology Index: Internet Resources
http://www.ent.iastate.edu/list/ - Iowa State Entomology Index: Databases
http://www.ent.iastate.edu/list/databases.html - Iowa State Entomology Index: Directories
http://www.ent.iastate.edu/li st/directories.html - My Insects Page: links for educators
http://www.eagle.ca/~matink/themes/Insects/insects.html - Neuropterist's Directory: Texas A&M University
http://entowww.tamu.edu/research/neuropterida/ndi-home.html - Guide to Online Insect Systematic Resources: North Carolina State Agricultural Network Information Centre, Systematic Entomology
http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/agnic/sys_entomology/index.html - ScaleNet: International Heteropterists' Society
http://www.sel.barc.usda.gov/scalenet/scalenet.htm - Social Insects World Wide Web (SIWeb): American Museum of Natural History
http://research.amnh.org/entomology/social_insects/ - Systematic Entomology: A Guide to Online Insect Systematic Resources, North Carolina State Agricultural Network Information Centre
http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/agnic/sys_entomology/index_txt.html - World Directory of Systematic Entomologists
http://entomology.si.edu/
Bites and stings: medical information sites
- Westmead Hospital Department of Medical Entomology
http://medent.usyd.edu.au/ - Australian Venom Research Unit: Australian Venomous Creatures - includes bees and wasps, stinging ants, and beetles
http://www.avru.unimelb.edu.au/avruweb/creatable.html - emedicine online journal - Bites, Insects
http://www.emedicine.com/emerg/topic62.htm - University of California - Bites and Stings of medically important venomous arthropods
http://spiders.ucr.edu/dermatol.html - Insects in Psychiatry: phobias, delusory parasitosis
http://www.insects.org/ced2/insects_psych.html - Iowa State Entomology Index: Medical Entomology
http://www.ent.iastate.edu/list/medical_entomology.html
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