Diptera (flies), 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
- Calodema Website of Dr TJ Hawkeswood - Website provides free PDF files of TJ Hawkeswood and his co-workers biological research.
- 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
- FlyView and FlyMove - a Drosophila image database, movies of developmental processes
- 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.
Apiculture (Beekeeping) and Social Insects
- Insects in Motion - Quicktime video clips of various insects showing feeding behavior and life stage development, including a bee stinging
Behavior and Ecology
- Asilidae predator-prey database - a database containing more than 11,000 prey records of robber flies taken from the scientific literature
- Borror Laboratory of Bioacoustics - Ohio State University
- Calodema Website of Dr TJ Hawkeswood - - Website provides free PDF files of TJ Hawkeswood and his co-workers biological research.
- Flybrain: Drosophila nervous system database - atlas and database of the Drosophila nervous system
- Tephritid Worker Database - TWD is a directory of tephritid fruit fly researchers and plant protection officers in the world, providing expertise on species and speciality field, and recent publications, bibliographic references, news, directories, meetings, and projects.
- 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.
- The Laphriini Pages - all about the North American members of this tribe of robber flies (Diptera: Asilidae: Laphriini). Many of the members in this tribe are large bumble bee mimics. Includes species-level descriptions and online keys.
- Volucella - international journal on taxonomy, ecology, and faunistics of palearctic Syrphidae (Diptera)
Biological Control
- Insect Field Collection Photos - Arizona Crop Information photos 2000-2003
- Tephritid Worker Database - - TWD is a directory of tephritid fruit fly researchers and plant protection officers in the world, providing expertise on species and speciality field, and recent publications, bibliographic references, news, directories, meetings, and projects.
- The Fly in your Eye - A small book (pub 1989) about the war deliberately started in Australia between dung beetles and bush flies. Based on CSIRO research. Hard facts, technical drawings, cartoons, jokes. Much used in Australian schools.
- 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.
Insect Pathology, Microbial Control
- Tephritid Worker Database - - - TWD is a directory of tephritid fruit fly researchers and plant protection officers in the world, providing expertise on species and speciality field, and recent publications, bibliographic references, news, directories, meetings, and projects.
Insect Vectors, Plant Disease
- Tephritid Worker Database - - - - TWD is a directory of tephritid fruit fly researchers and plant protection officers in the world, providing expertise on species and speciality field, and recent publications, bibliographic references, news, directories, meetings, and projects.
Quantitative Ecology
Crop Protection
Host Plant Resistance
- Tephritid Worker Database - - - - - TWD is a directory of tephritid fruit fly researchers and plant protection officers in the world, providing expertise on species and speciality field, and recent publications, bibliographic references, news, directories, meetings, and projects.
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.
Medical and Veterinary Entomology
- American Mosquito Control Association
- AnoBase - AnoBase is a database containing genomic/biological information on anopheline mosquitoes, with an emphasis on Anopheles gambiae, the world's most important malaria vector.
- Bristol University Entomology Group - myiasis causing flies, mainly Luccilia sericata, parasitic mites
- Chironomid Home Page - everything to do with Chironomidae (Diptera). Bibliographies, listserver, newsletter, etc.
- Chironomus Newsletter - covers research on Diptera: Chironomidae
- Computerized Disease Vector Identification Keys - Including Key to the Mosquito Genera of North America North of Mexico. From Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit
- CulicID - series of computerized interactive identification and information tools for Australasian mosquitoes
- Dengue and Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever - surveillance, outbreaks. World Health Organization
- Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory - research and education on arthropods of medical importance and on ecologically sound control strategies
- Florida Mosquito Control Association
- Identification Guide to Common Mosquitoes of Florida - larval and adult keys
- Images of Mosquito Vectors of Arboviruses - from the CDC. Aedes, Culex, and Anopheles
- Integrated Fly Management Presentation - presentation emphasizing insect light traps but covering all areas need to control filth breeding flies without the use of pesticides. Requires Flash.
- International Biotherapy Society - maggots, leeches and bees in modern medicine
- Louisiana Mosquito Control Association
- Maggot Debridement Therapy - cleansing non-healing wounds with maggots
- Michigan Mosquito Control Association
- Mid Atlantic Mosquito Control Association
- Mosquito and Moth Cell Lines - cell culture availability database
- Mosquito and Vector Control Association of California
- Mosquito Control Association of Australia
- Mosquito Images - mosquitoes of the midwestern U.S.
- Mosquito Movies - hatching, emerging, biting
- Mosquito-L - for the discussion of topics related to mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae). Possible topics include, but are not limited to: behavior, bionomics, ecology, control, general biology, legislative/regulatory issues, mosquito-borne diseases, physiology, pathogens, sampling methods, systematics. To subscribe send an e-mail message to MOSQUITO-L-REQUEST@IASTATE.EDU with the word SUBSCRIBE in the body of the message. The subject field will be ignored. If your e-mail program automatically adds your signature to the end of your message, put the word END on a separate line after the word SUBSCRIBE. Archives are available.
- New Jersey Mosquito Control Association
- Nzi Trap for Biting Flies - practical tsetse and biting fly control with environment-friendly trapping technology that does not rely on the use of insecticides
- Pennsylvania Vector Control Association
- PHEREC Publications - publications of the John A. Mulrennan Sr. Public Health Entomology Research and Education Cetner on mosquito control, stable flies, sandflies, non-chemical mosquito control, and pesticide environmental impact research.
- Phlebotomine Sand fly and Leishmania Research at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine - Introduction to the research on the Phlebotomine sand fly vector of the Leishmania parasite. Overview of current research including, insect genomics, biology, biochemistry and field research.
- SIMULIIDAE - is an offshoot of the British Simuliid Group, a very informal gathering of scientists of any discipline, and from many countries, who have an interest in the Simuliidae. Members include entomologists, parasitologists and medics, with interests in ecology, bionomics, taxonomy, cytotaxonomy, disease transmission, fresh water biology, etc. The aim is to assemble as diverse a group as possible in order to get a wide interchange of ideas and information
- Society for Vector Ecology
- Texas Mosquito Control Association
- 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.
- Veterinary Entomology - biological information on various insect parasites of animals and to some extent humans. Tsetse flies, tabanids, screwworm, fleas and cockroaches
- Virginia Mosquito Control Association
- Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit - dedicated to mosquito systematics. Systematic catalog of Culicidae, identification resources, mosquito and tick publications.
Physiology, Biochem., Toxicology, Mol. Biology
Regulatory
- Fruit Flies of New South Wales
- Tephritid Worker Database - - - - - - - TWD is a directory of tephritid fruit fly researchers and plant protection officers in the world, providing expertise on species and speciality field, and recent publications, bibliographic references, news, directories, meetings, and projects.
Systematics, Morphology and Evolution
- Aquatic Insects of Michigan - checklist and identification resources
- Asilidae keys - subfamilies, etc.
- Australian Faunal Directory - checklists and bibliographies for Australian insects
- BioSystematic Database of World Diptera - fly names and information about those names and the taxa to which they apply. Taxonomic bibliography. National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution
- Calodema Website of Dr TJ Hawkeswood - - - Website provides free PDF files of TJ Hawkeswood and his co-workers biological research.
- Canadian National Collection of Insects - 17 million specimens, mostly North American fauna. Ottawa, Canada.
- Carnegie Museum of Natural History - 6.9 million specimens
- Catalog of Diptera families
- Catalogue of the fossil flies of the world - over 3,100 species of fossil flies
- Ceratopogonid Information Exchange Newsletter - for those interested in Diptera: Ceratopogonidae
- Checklist of Tachinidae (Diptera) of America North of Mexico
- Checklist of the Chironomidae - by region
- Checklists of Asilidae - (Diptera) catalog of world genera and species
- Chironomidae and Water Beetles of Florida - Checklist of the Chironomidae (Diptera) and water beetles (Coleoptera) of Florida
- Chironomus Newsletter - - covers research on Diptera: Chironomidae
- Cornell University Insect Collection - historical overview of the collection, list of holdings of the main collection and information on the holdings in various orders, student faculty and staff associated with the collection, a searchable database of all types
- Diptera types in the Canadian National Collection of Insects - Nematocera, Brachycera, Schizophora, Tachinidae
- Dipterological Research - an international journal of dipterological research with particular reference to the Palaearctic fauna.
- Distribution of Asilidae and Bombyliidae in the Netherlands - JavaFaunist distribution maps and activity period histograms of Asilidae and Bombyliidae (Diptera) in the Netherlands
- Fly Fauna of Finland - A draft check list of Finnish flies
- Fly Times - Newsletter of the North American Dipterists' Society. Jeffrey M. Cumming and Art Borkent (editors)
- FlyEvidence - A Scottish based insect identification and Forensic Entomology service, based in East Lothian, Scotland.
- Fruit Flies of New South Wales
- Historical World Directory of Diptera Systematists - names and dates of birth and death for over 3,000 persons who have described new taxa in Diptera since Linnaeus with links to web pages or portraits
- Hoverflies of South Germany - (Diptera: Syrphidae)
- Illinois Natural History Survey - 6 million specimens. Several insect databases, including a searchable, specimen level Plecoptera database . Dates back to 1858
- Key to Conopidae (Diptera) of the Netherlands
- Lyman Entomological Museum and Research Laboratory - 2.8 million specimens; second largest insect collection in Canada. Major groups include Orthoptera, Lepidoptera, Coleoptera, Hymenoptera. McGill University
- Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County - Insects of the southwestern United States, aculeate hymenoptera, lepidoptera, diptera, coleoptera, odonata
- North Carolina State University Insect Collection - 1.1 million specimens. Emphasis on North Carolina insects and worldwide Homoptera
- Phorid flies - (Diptera: Phoridae) ant-decapitating and bee-killing flies. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.
- Snow Entomological Research Collection - 4.1 million specimens. University of Kansas Natural History Museum
- Stiletto Flies - Describes fly family Therevidae including ongoing research and participants in the research.
- Studia dipterologica - journal of taxonomy, systematics, ecology and faunistics of Diptera
- SYRPHIDAE - discussion list for people interested in the taxonomy and all aspects of the biology of hoverflies
- Syrphidae Europe - Hoverflies (Syrphidae) of Europe - photos, range maps, keys. English and Dutch content.
- Syrphidae of Lower Saxony - (Germany) species list, red data list, literature
- Systematic Catalog of Culicidae - A compilation of Knight and Stone 1977 with all its supplements
- Tachinid Times - annual newsletter for persons interested in research on parasitic flies (Diptera) of the family Tachinidae. This newsletter acts as a forum for informal communication about current projects, recent research findings, field trips, and similar types of information relating to the Tachinidae.
- Tachnid Bibliography - 1980-present, gleaned from The Tachnid Times
- Tephritid Worker Database - - - - - - - - TWD is a directory of tephritid fruit fly researchers and plant protection officers in the world, providing expertise on species and speciality field, and recent publications, bibliographic references, news, directories, meetings, and projects.
- The Crane Flies (Diptera: Tipulidae) of Pennsylvania
- The University of Wyoming Insect Museum - 250,000 specimens. Holdings are particularly strong in the major orders Hymenoptera (53%), Diptera (12%),Lepidoptera (10%), and Coleoptera (9%). Insect Gallery, with beautiful insects from around the world on display open to public viewing free of charge
- University of Queensland Insect Collection - 700,000 specimens. Australia
- University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Volucella - - international journal on taxonomy, ecology, and faunistics of palearctic Syrphidae (Diptera)
- Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit - - dedicated to mosquito systematics. Systematic catalog of Culicidae, identification resources, mosquito and tick publications.
- World Dipterists - directory of world dipterists
General
- Asilidae Publications - Publications about Diptera:Asilidae by F. Geller-Grimm
- Bibliography Update 1977-1995 for the Asilidae - PDF. Lavigne, R.J. 1999. Includes short translations from Japanese and Russian. University of Wyoming Agricultural Experiment Station Science mongraph SM55.
- Catalogue of the Craneflies of the World (Diptera, Tipuloidea: Pediciidae, Limoniidae, Cylindrotomidae, Tipulidae) - This Catalogue of the Craneflies of the World (CCW) covers all 17334 genus-group and species-group taxa of the families Pediciidae, Limoniidae, Cylindrotomidae, and Tipulidae (Insecta, Diptera, Tipuloidea). Its author is Pjotr Oosterbroek, honorary staffmember of the Zoological Museum Amsterdam, section Entomology
- Common North American Arthropods - Extensive catalog of copyrighted high-resolution arthropod photographs.
- Diptera - Tree of Life
- Diptera.info - dipterology
- Dipteralista - for Finnish dipterists
- Dipterist's Club of Japan - publishes the Japanese journal HANA ABU on Diptera. In Japanese
- Dipterists Forum - British to European Diptera
- Directory of Ceratopogonid Workers - over 100 workers worldwide
- Directory of Chironomid Workers
- Directory of North American Dipterists - over 250 North American fly workers listed, including addresses, phone numbers, fax numbers, email addresses and interests. Updated regularly.
- Fly Images - from the Young Diptera Site
- Harlan's Big Bugtography Web Page - photographs and observations about insects found in Iowa. Nontechnical.
- MicroAngela - scanning electron microscope images of insects
- North American Dipterists' Society
- Photographic atlas and identification key to the robber flies of Germany (Diptera: Asilidae) - includes more than 1,900 photographs of 81 robber-fly species (Diptera: Asilidae). The identification key for determination is applicable to all species of Asilidae found in the following countries: Belgium, Denmark, Germany, United Kingdom, The Netherlands, and Sweden.
- Reference Library of Digitized Insect Sounds - many diverse insect sounds, including sounds of insect pests of stored products
- The Diptera Site - information about the world's flies
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