Categories
Biology, Ecology and Behavior, by Content Type
Bibliographies
CD-ROM
- Calodema Website of Dr TJ Hawkeswood - - Website provides free PDF files of TJ Hawkeswood and his co-workers biological research.
- Science Snoops - The Monarch Case - Students play the role of new researchers as they work to solve each life science mystery case as part of a team of real and virtual scientists. Virtual co-workers are portrayed by actors who interact with the student to give information, assign work, and give feedback on students' performance.
Checklists
- Earwig Research Centre - The website contains the most complete collection of checklists, photographs and drawings and an almost complete literature database on the Dermaptera, the earwigs. It is designed to help identification of specimens in any region of the world. By Fabian Haas, ICIPE Nairobi
- Nicrophorus Central - - for all those whose research involves nicrophorine species (burying beetles) (Coleoptera: Silphidae: Nicrophorinae). Taxonomy, photo gallery.
- The Ants of Cachoeira Nature Reserve - by Jochen H. Bihn. Information on ecology and taxonomy of ants from Cachoeira Nature Reserve, Brazil.
- ThripsNet - checklist, keys, biology, collection. Martin Luther University of Halle, Wittenberg, Germany
- Tiger Beetles of North Dakota - biology, morphology, checklist and key
Databases
- BeeBase - the honey bee genome database
- Earwig Research Centre - - The website contains the most complete collection of checklists, photographs and drawings and an almost complete literature database on the Dermaptera, the earwigs. It is designed to help identification of specimens in any region of the world. By Fabian Haas, ICIPE Nairobi
- The International Database on Insect Disinfestation and Sterilization - - IDIDAS provides information on disinfestation and sterilization of arthropod species, with dosage levels and conditions, efficacy and references. For researchers, phytosanotary regulators, plant protection services and SIT facility and food irradiation operations personnel.
Image Galleries
- Allpet Roaches - Cockroaches of the world. Rearing information. Photographs of many species
- Beetle Science - Virtual labs, virtual beetles, videos, carbon dust illustrations, and interactive science features.
- BugGuide.Net - community site with user-submitted images for identification, information on insect groups
- Bugs In Cyberspace - Pictures and information for various North American backyard bugs, and guides for keeping them in captivity.
- Butterflies and Moths - biology and ecology of butterflies and moths with basic information about differences between the two, hearing, communication
- Calodema Website of Dr TJ Hawkeswood - - - Website provides free PDF files of TJ Hawkeswood and his co-workers biological research.
- Cockroach Home Page - by Joseph Kunkel. Includes cockroach FAQ
- Fleas - (Siphonaptera) taxonomy, morphology, distribution, host-association and ecology, scanning electron micrographs. Hosted by Zoological Institute (St. Petersburg, Russia)
- FlyView and FlyMove - a Drosophila image database, movies of developmental processes
- Goliathus - Goliath beetles, some of the largest beetles on earth.
- Insect Drawings - drawn as a Works Progress Administration project during the Great Depression. From University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana
- Kids' Cicada Hunt - follow two young brothers as they hunt for cicada nymphs, watch cicadas shed their skins, discover cicada predators, and try to solve cicada mysteries.
- Lepidoptera Larvae (caterpillars) of Australia - images, biology, behavior and life history of over 1300 species, both butterflies and moths
- Myrmecology - the scientific study of ants. Habitat, biology, image gallery, and recommended reading
- Nicrophorus Central - - - for all those whose research involves nicrophorine species (burying beetles) (Coleoptera: Silphidae: Nicrophorinae). Taxonomy, photo gallery.
- The Ants of Cachoeira Nature Reserve - - by Jochen H. Bihn. Information on ecology and taxonomy of ants from Cachoeira Nature Reserve, Brazil.
- The Collembola - brief description and images of body types
Journals and Newsletters
Keys
- Nicrophorus Central - - - - for all those whose research involves nicrophorine species (burying beetles) (Coleoptera: Silphidae: Nicrophorinae). Taxonomy, photo gallery.
- Scorpionflies, Hangingflies, and other Mecoptera - A summary of the Mecoptera, including a key to North American adults.
- ThripsNet - - checklist, keys, biology, collection. Martin Luther University of Halle, Wittenberg, Germany
- Tiger Beetles of North Dakota - - biology, morphology, checklist and key
Mailing Lists
- Chironomidae-L - topics related to chironomids (Diptera:Chironomidae). Researchers and students can exchange news, ideas and requests on all aspects of chironomid biology. To subscribe send e-mail to majordomo@cf.ac.uk with subscribe chironomidae-L in the body of the message
- FORUM@NEUROPTERA.COM - mailing list for questions and answers regarding Neuroptera (lacewings, alder flies, snake flies, mantis flies, ant-lions) and Mecoptera (e.g. scorpion flies, hang flies)
- Myrmecology - - the scientific study of ants. Habitat, biology, image gallery, and recommended reading
Professional Societies
Software
- 3-D Insects - Virtual models of insects using the virtual reality modeling language.
Video
- 3-D Insects - - Virtual models of insects using the virtual reality modeling language.
- Antlion Pit: A Doodlebug Anthology - a collection of resources related to the antlion. Videos of feeding behavior and metamorphosis. Antlions in culture
- Beetle Science - - Virtual labs, virtual beetles, videos, carbon dust illustrations, and interactive science features.
- FlyView and FlyMove - - a Drosophila image database, movies of developmental processes
General
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