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Entomology Art Shapiro's Butterfly Site 
 "This website describes over 34 years of data collected by ... [a] professor of Evolution and Ecology at the University of California, Davis, in his continuing effort to regularly monitor butterfly population trends on a transect across central California." Features butterfly data, profiles of study sites (such as Donner Pass and Suisun Marsh), bibliography, photos, links to news and related websites, and more. From the Information Center for the Environment (ICE), University of California, Davis. http://butterfly.ucdavis.edu/ Topics: Insects & Arachnids Last updated May 14, 2009 Bohart Museum of Entomology
Website of a museum devoted to the study of insects, located on the campus of the University California, Davis. In addition to information about the museum, the site contains fact sheets on insects and arachnids, an introduction to collecting insects, keys to insect identification, a glossary, and newsletters of the Bohart Museum Society. Also features activities and insect jokes for children. http://bohart.ucdavis.edu/ Topics: Biology, Insects & Arachnids, Science Last updated Aug 23, 2006 Bugbios
Full of interesting photographs, the Entophiles section contains images and information of the fourteen insect orders found in California, Brazil, Ecuador, and Hawaii. There is a FAQ and tips on insect macrophotography. Cedigest (cultural entomology) discusses the role insects in art, music, film, literature, and more. Class Insecta contains wing patterns of butterflies and moths. There are also annotated links to other insect resources. http://bugbios.com/ Topics: Biology, Insects & Arachnids, Photograph Collections: Nature & Wildlife Last updated Jun 15, 2005 Collecting Insects
Illustrated instructions for creating an insect collection. Discusses where and how to collect live insects, collection equipment (such as jars and nets), killing insects as quickly as possible, preservation methods, pinning and mounting, labeling, and organization. From two University of Nebraska entomology professors. http://entomology.unl.edu/tmh/ent115/labs/collecting.htm Topics: Insects & Arachnids Last updated Feb 14, 2006 Entomology Research Museum, U.C. Riverside
Website of a museum devoted to the study of insects, located on the campus of the University of California, Riverside. In addition to information about the museum, the site contains a FAQ about insects, "graphical descriptions including close-up shots and video clips of [selected] insects and other arthropods," links to insect databases and holdings lists, and more. Also includes newsletters of the Friends of the Entomology Research Museum (FERM). http://entmuseum.ucr.edu Topics: Biology, Insects & Arachnids, Science Last updated Aug 28, 2006 Insect Mouthparts
A guide utilizing photographs and labeled diagrams to illustrate the functions of chewing, siphoning, piercing, sponging, and combinations. From a University of Ottawa entomology professor. http://salinella.bio.uottawa.ca/BIO3323/InteractiveWeb/DigitalZoology/Mout_Lab.html Topics: Biology, Photograph Collections: Nature & Wildlife Last updated Feb 25, 2003 Iowa State Entomology Index of Internet Resources
A searchable directory of insect-related Internet resources. Listings are topically organized. From a professor at the Iowa State University Department of Entomology. http://www.ent.iastate.edu/List/ Topics: Biology, Insects & Arachnids Last updated Jun 15, 2005 Iowa State University Entomology Image Gallery
Images of many types of beetles, butterflies, moths, caterpillars, cicadas, leafhoppers, flies, mosquitoes, grasshoppers, crickets, lice, ticks, and true bugs. There are also images of plants, plant diseases, and plant damage. Images have links to related articles in the online edition of Integrated Crop Management , a research publication of the university's entomology department. http://www.ent.iastate.edu/imagegallery/ Topics: Biology, Gardening, Insects & Arachnids, Plants Last updated Aug 20, 2002 Making a Bug Collection
Instructions for collecting insects, covering topics such as equipment, where to look for bugs, using relaxing jars, identification and labeling, pinning and spreading, drying, and maintaining the collection. Includes illustrations. Part of an outreach project created by the University of California, Berkeley, College of Natural Resources and the Oakland Unified School District, California. http://www.cnr.berkeley.edu/citybugs/studentcorner/MakeABugCollection/MakeABugCollection.htm Topics: Insects & Arachnids Last updated Jun 29, 2009 Nomina Insecta Nearctica: A Checklist of the Insects of North America
Features approximately 90,000 species of insects of North America north of Mexico, taken from the four-volume work published by Entomological Information Services (c. 1996 and 1997). Browse by class or order. http://www.nearctica.com/nomina/main.htm Topics: Biology, Regions of the World Last updated Jul 5, 2004 Scale Insect World
Images of field notebooks, correspondence, photographs, and other "supplementary material" accompanying a collection of scale insects (plant and animal parasites of the order Hemiptera), most of which were "collected in China and Southeast Asia during the beginning of the 20th century." Includes brief biographies of G.F. Ferris, G. Compere, and T.D.A. Cockerell, the entomologists who produced the material. From the Bohart Museum of Entomology, located on the campus of the University California, Davis. http://bohart.ucdavis.edu/ScaleWorld/ScaleWorld.htm Topics: Biology, Insects & Arachnids Last updated Jun 30, 2009 University of Minnesota Insect Collection
Provides resources related to this insect collection, which has "grown from a regional collection of 3,000 specimens to a major national and international resource of almost 3,400,000 specimens." Features project overviews (some with results or more details), collection taxonomy, collection databases relating to the caddis fly (trichoptera), and related Web links. http://www.entomology.umn.edu/museum/ Topics: Biology, Insects & Arachnids, Science, Science Last updated Jun 15, 2005 |
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