Orthoptera (grasshoppers, crickets), by Entomological Subdiscipline
Biology, Ecology and Behavior
- 3-D Insects - Virtual models of insects using the virtual reality modeling language.
- BugGuide.Net - community site with user-submitted images for identification, information on insect groups
- 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.
Behavior and Ecology
- Borror Laboratory of Bioacoustics - Ohio State University
- Grasshoppers: Their Biology, Identification and Management - comprehensive grasshopper management site containing APHIS' Grasshopper Integrated Pest Management User Handbook, Field Guide to Common Western Grasshoppers, information on new grasshopper control techniques, and new research findings.
- How Grasshoppers Jump - by W.J. Heitler
- Mole Cricket Knowledgebase - Florida's pest management success story. Mole cricket knowledgebase on all ten species found in the United States, including Hawaii, and Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Distribution, description, life cycle, damage, and biological controls. Identification key for these species that makes heavy use of graphics and photographs. Large lists of references in every area. HTML format works on PCs and Macs.
- 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.
Biological Control
- Biocontrol Web Site - USDA-ARS laboratory searches for alternative methods to reduce crop losses caused by insect pests. Research on the introduction and conservation of pests' natural enemies and use of trap crops
- Mole Cricket Knowledgebase - - Florida's pest management success story. Mole cricket knowledgebase on all ten species found in the United States, including Hawaii, and Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Distribution, description, life cycle, damage, and biological controls. Identification key for these species that makes heavy use of graphics and photographs. Large lists of references in every area. HTML format works on PCs and Macs.
- 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.
Quantitative Ecology
- CARMA - predicts the proportion of available forage that will be consumed by grasshoppers and estimates the economic returns of various treatment options
- Hopper - expert system for selecting appropriate treatments for grasshopper infestations, and computer models for economic analyses of those treatments
Crop Protection
- Australian Plague Locust Commission - role of the Australian Plague Locust Commission (APLC), how we forecast, monitor and control locusts in Australia, research and extension activites as well as issues of the monthly APLC Locust Bulletin
- Electronic Key for Common Adult Grasshoppers of the Western United States - identify and find information for 58 of the most common adult grasshoppers of the Western U.S. which pose the greatest environmental and economic threat.
- Grasshoppers of New Mexico - Orthoptera: Acrididae and Romaleidae
- Grasshoppers of Wyoming and the West - Dr. Robert Pfadt's Field Guide to Common Western Grasshoppers with photography and detailed life history information on over 50 grasshopper species. Management, distribution, and population dynamics
- Grasshoppers: Their Biology, Identification and Management - - comprehensive grasshopper management site containing APHIS' Grasshopper Integrated Pest Management User Handbook, Field Guide to Common Western Grasshoppers, information on new grasshopper control techniques, and new research findings.
- Key to Wyoming Grasshoppers: Acrididae and Tetrigidae - online presentation of a revison made in 1998 by Timothy J. McNary to a key developed by Dr. Robert E. Pfadt, Professor Emeritus, University of Wyoming
- Mole Cricket Knowledgebase - - - Florida's pest management success story. Mole cricket knowledgebase on all ten species found in the United States, including Hawaii, and Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Distribution, description, life cycle, damage, and biological controls. Identification key for these species that makes heavy use of graphics and photographs. Large lists of references in every area. HTML format works on PCs and Macs.
- 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.
Urban Entomology
- 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.
Extension
- Mole Cricket Knowledgebase - - - - Florida's pest management success story. Mole cricket knowledgebase on all ten species found in the United States, including Hawaii, and Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Distribution, description, life cycle, damage, and biological controls. Identification key for these species that makes heavy use of graphics and photographs. Large lists of references in every area. HTML format works on PCs and Macs.
Medical and Veterinary Entomology
- 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.
Systematics, Morphology and Evolution
- An Illustrated Catalog of Orthoptera - Complete taxonomic and synonymic catalog of the superfamily Tettigonioidea (katydids, bush-crickets and their allies) of the world. It includes all taxa, from family down to subspecies, of Tettigonioidea described until the end of 1998. For Macintosh or Windows.
- Aquatic Insects of Michigan - checklist and identification resources
- Australian Faunal Directory - checklists and bibliographies for Australian insects
- Checklist of Crickets North of Mexico
- Checklist of the Orthopteroid Orders of Oklahoma
- Checklist of Turkish Orthoptera
- Electronic Key for Common Adult Grasshoppers of the Western United States - - identify and find information for 58 of the most common adult grasshoppers of the Western U.S. which pose the greatest environmental and economic threat.
- Grasshoppers of Florida - color guide to grasshoppers in the southeastern United States, including maps. PDF format.
- Grasshoppers of New Mexico - - Orthoptera: Acrididae and Romaleidae
- Guide to Orthoptera of the Netherlands - in Dutch
- Guide to the Grasshoppers of Wisconsin - keys, photos and species distributions
- Illinois Natural History Survey - 6 million specimens. Several insect databases, including a searchable, specimen level Plecoptera database . Dates back to 1858
- Katydids of Costa Rica Vol. 1 - Systematics and bioacoustics of the cone-head katydids by Piotr Naskrecki
- Key to families and subfamilies of crickets
- Key to families and subfamilies of katydids
- Key to Wyoming Grasshoppers: Acrididae and Tetrigidae - - online presentation of a revison made in 1998 by Timothy J. McNary to a key developed by Dr. Robert E. Pfadt, Professor Emeritus, University of Wyoming
- North Carolina State University Insect Collection - 1.1 million specimens. Emphasis on North Carolina insects and worldwide Homoptera
- Orthoptera of the Netherlands - Book, De sprinkhanen en krekels van Nederland (Orthoptera) by Roy Kleukers, Erik van Nieukerken, Baudewijn Odé, Luc Willemse and Walter van Wingerden. Accompanying CD is titled "De zingende sprinkhanen en krekels van de Benelux" [The singing Orthoptera of the Benelux-countries] by Baudewijn Odé Book is 416 p., 14 colour plates, bound, with dust-jacket. ISBN 90-5011-100-9. Publication: 15 may 1997. Price: HFL 82,50 (excl. P&P). Order in writing from: KNNV Uitgeverij, Oudegracht 237, 3511 NK Utrecht, Netherlands. Fax: +31-30-236 89 07
- Orthoptera of the Northern Great Plains - anatomy, key, photos
- Orthoptera Species File Online - taxonomic database of the Orthoptera of the world. Includes full synonymic and taxonomic data as well as type data for all species of Tettigonioidea (katydids, bush-crickets), Grylloidea (crickets), Tridactyloidea (sand crickets), and Tetrigoidea (pygmy grasshoppers).
- Orthoptera Species File Online - taxonomic database of the world's grasshoppers, locusts, katydids and crickets, both living and fossil. Full synonymic and taxonomic information for 23,700 valid species, 39,999 taxonomic names, 145,100 citations to 11,850 references, 44,000 images, 184 sound recordings, 37,980 specimens, and keys to 2,100 taxa.
- University of Colorado Museum - 550,000 specimens. Many from Rocky Mountain region
- University of Michigan Musem of Zoology, Insect Division - one of the largest university insect collections in North America with 4.5 million specimens. Especially Odonata, Orthoptera, Acari, Coleoptera, and Homoptera
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