Professional Societies, by Entomological Subdiscipline
Biology, Ecology and Behavior
Apiculture (Beekeeping) and Social Insects
Biological Control
- Association of Natural Biocontrol Producers - professional association representing the biological pest management industry. Augmentative biological control utilizes beneficial insects, mites and nematodes to manage agricultural, horticultural and plant pests
- Society for In Vitro Biology - the invertebrate section of the SIVB is devoted to research in vitro using invertebrate cells to study problems concerning growth, development, toxicology, parasites and pathogens, molecular analyses, mass rearing for bioproduction of biological products and insect control
Insect Pathology, Microbial Control
Crop Protection
- Association of Applied IPM Ecologists - not-for-profit association of IPM practitioners. Provides information about pest management while encouraging environmentally compatible approaches and an awareness of IPM
Medical and Veterinary Entomology
Physiology, Biochem., Toxicology, Mol. Biology
- Society for In Vitro Biology - - the invertebrate section of the SIVB is devoted to research in vitro using invertebrate cells to study problems concerning growth, development, toxicology, parasites and pathogens, molecular analyses, mass rearing for bioproduction of biological products and insect control
Regulatory
Systematics, Morphology and Evolution
General
- Acadian Entomological Society
- ACOREP - Societes Association des coleopteristes de la Region Parisienne, France
- American Entomological Society
- Arbeitsgemeinschaft Rheinischer Koleopterologen - Coleopterologists Society of the Rhineland. Germany
- Asociación Europea de Coleopterología
- Asociación Europea de Coleopterología - European Association of Coleopterology. Devoted to the study of beetles. Spanish and English
- Association for Applied Acridology International
- Association for Tropical Lepidoptera - promote the study and conservation of Lepidoptera worldwide, especially in the tropical regions of the world
- Association of Indian Entomologists in North America - for collaborative work between Entomologists in India and North America
- Association Roussillonnaise d'Entomologie - French
- Australian Entomological Society
- British Dragonfly Society
- British Entomological and Natural History Society
- Bug Club and Amateur Entomologists' Society - for young and older entomologists in the UK
- Butterfly Conservation Society of Taiwan
- Butterfly Conservation Society of the Republic of China
- Butterfly Society of Japan
- Cambridge Entomological Club - second oldest North American entomological society
- Carolina Butterfly Society
- Coleopterists' Society - international organization devoted to the study of beetles. The Coleopterists Bulletin issued four times per year. Annual meetings in conjunction with those of the Entomological Society of America
- Connecticut Butterfly Association
- Connecticut Entomological Society
- Croatian Entomological Society
- Dallas County Lepidopterists' Society - Texas
- Danish Entomological Society
- Danish Lepidopterological Society
- Dipterist's Club of Japan - publishes the Japanese journal HANA ABU on Diptera. In Japanese
- Dipterists Forum - British to European Diptera
- Dragonfly Society of the Americas
- Entomological Society of Alberta - Canada
- Entomological Society of America
- Entomological Society of America - Eastern Branch
- Entomological Society of British Columbia - Canada
- Entomological Society of Canada
- Entomological Society of Japan
- Entomological Society of Latvia
- Entomological Society of Manitoba - Canada
- Entomological Society of New South Wales - Australia
- Entomological Society of New Zealand
- Entomological Society of Ontario
- Entomological Society of Saskatchewan - Canada
- Entomological Society of Southern Africa
- Entomological Society of Victoria - Australia
- Flemish Entomological Society
- Florida Entomological Society
- Gazi Entomological Research Society - Turkey
- Georgia Entomological Society - U.S.A.
- Heterocera Sumatrana Society e.V. - Heterocera from the Indonesian island Sumatra. German and English
- International Dragonfly Fund - for the improvement of odonatological science and protection of species
- International Society of Arachnology - focuses on the arachnid orders Amblypygi, Araneae, Opiliones, Palpigradi, Pseudoscorpiones, Ricinulei, Schizomida, Scorpiones, and Uropygi, but not Acari, as other societies dedicated to acarology exist
- International Society of Chemical Ecology - studying chemical communication between living organisms
- International Society of Hymenopterists
- Internationaler Entomologischer Verein - Internatinal Society of Entomology. Germany
- Japan Coleopterological Society
- Japan Heterocerists' Society - studying Japanese moths
- Japanese Society of Applied Entomology and Zoology
- Kansas Entomological Society - also known as the Central States Entomological Society
- Korean Society of Applied Entomology
- Korean Society of Sericulture Science - silkworms
- Lepidopterological Society of Finland
- Lepidopterological Society of Japan
- Maine Entomological Society
- Michigan Entomological Society
- Muenchner Entomologische Gesellschaft e.V. - Entomological Society of Munich/Bavaria
- Myrmecology Society - encouraging ant enthusiasts and myrmecologists to communicate
- Netherlands Entomological Society - founded 1845
- Nordic Odonatological Society
- North American Butterfly Association - largest group of people in North America interested in butterflies. Works to increase public enjoyment and conservation of butterflies
- North American Dipterists' Society
- North Carolina Entomological Society
- Norwegian Entomological Society
- Ohio Coleopterists
- Ohio Lepidopterists Society
- Orthopterists' Society
- Pacific Coast Entomological Society
- Philippine Association of Entomologists
- Polish Entomological Society
- Royal Belgian Entomological Society
- Royal Entomological Society - UK
- Royal Entomological Society of Antwerp - Belgium
- Société Lorraine d'Entomologie - French
- Sociéte d'entomologie du Québec - Quebec Entomological Society. French/English/Spanish
- Sociedad Colombiana de Entomologia - Colombian Entomological Society. Active since 1973 with over 1500 members. National meeting: Congreso Colombiano de Entomologia, yearly in July
- Sociedad Mexicana de Entomologia - Mexican Entomological Society
- Sociedad Venezolana de EntomologÃŒa - Venezuelan Entomological Society, includes search engine for papers delivered at the meetings since 1976
- Sociedade Entomologica do Brasil - Entomological Society of Brazil
- Societá Entomologica Italiana - Italian Entomological Society
- Societas Europaea Lepidopterologica - The European Society for the study of moths and butterflies and for the conservation of these insects and their natural habitats
- Societe D'Entomologie Africaine - African Entomological Society. Coleoptera and Lepidoptera
- Society of Southwestern Entomologists - southwestern U.S.
- South Carolina Entomological Society - publishes Journal of Agricultural and Urban Entomology (formerly the Journal of Agricultural Entomology)
- Southern Lepidopterists' Society - southern U.S.
- Specialist Group for Systematic and Phylogenetic Odonatology
- Systematic and Applied Acarology Society - promoting the development of acarology in China and enhancing communication among acarologists in the world
- Tennessee Entomological Society
- Thüringer Entomologenverband e.V. - Germany
- Toronto Entomologists' Association - Canada
- UF Urban Entomological Society - University of Florida's graduate and undergraduate students working in the field of urban entomology
- Utah Lepidopterists' Society
- Vermont Entomological Society
- Wisconsin Entomological Society
- Worldwide Dragonfly Association
- Xerces Society - international nonprofit organization dedicated to protecting biological diversity through invertebrate conservation
- Young Entomologists' Society - encourages children to explore insects and arachnids
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