Hymenoptera (wasps, ants, bees)
- 3-D Insects - Virtual models of insects using the virtual reality modeling language.
- Africanized honey bees - Africanized bee information, especially in relation to California. Includes bibliography with over 900 references
- All About Bees
- American Association of Professional Apiculturists
- American Bee Journal - The Journal has the honor of being the oldest English language beekeeping publication in the world.
- American Beekeeping Federation
- An Introduction to Ants (Formicidae) of the Tallgrass Prairie - by James C. Trager. Ecology, taxonomy and restoration info on ants of the U.S. midwest tallgrass prairie.
- Ant Colony Developers Association - fore those with an interest in ant colonies
- Antbase - provides access to information on all the ant species of the world
- Ants Recorded from the Hawaiian Islands
- AntWeb - ant faunas of several areas in the Nearctic and Malagasy biogeographic regions, and global coverage of all ant genera
- Apiculture Newsletter - From UC-Davis entomology department.
- APIS: Apicultural Information and Issues - archive of individual issues of the Apicultural Information and Issues monthly newsletter, published by the Florida Cooperative Extension Service
- Apiservices - Virtual Beekeeping Gallery - information, products and services for beekeeping, bees and honey. Trilingual site: English, French and Spanish
- Aquatic Insects of Michigan - checklist and identification resources
- Areawide Suppression of Fire Ants - Biological control techniques used by the USDA to control red imported fire ants.
- Australian Faunal Directory - checklists and bibliographies for Australian insects
- Automatic Bee Identification System
- Bee Alert - using bees to assess environmental hazards. Online video cameras, electronic hive monitoring. Kids' section.
- Bee Briefs - Short articles on topics of interest to beekeepers. UC-Davis
- Bee Genera of the World - Synonymic listing, including type species and subgenera; based on Michener, 2000, with updates.
- Bee Improvement - from Bee Improvement and Bee Breeders' Association (BIBBA), a UK-based organisation dedicated to conservation and improvement of native honey bees.
- Bee Research Lab - Beltsville, MD. Research projects and instruction for submission of samples to the diagnostic service. USDA-ARS
- Bee Tidings Newsletter - image-rich newsletter for Midwestern beekeepers produced by the University of Nebraska, Marion Ellis, editor.
- BEE-L - for discussion of bee research and biology. Subjects include sociobiology, behavior, ecology, genetics, taxonomy, physiology, pollination, and many others
- BeeBase - the honey bee genome database
- Beehoo - world beekeeping directory. More than 1,000 websites about beekeeping, bees, apitherapy, honey recipes, queen breeding
- Beekeeper's Reference - regional beekeeping groups, multimedia, books
- Beekeeping in Top-Bar Hives - an alternative method of beekeeping. Plans for hives, helpful photos
- Beekeeping: The Beekeeper's Home Page - the honey bee, and honey production, beginner tips, photos. Canadian and North American content
- Bees of the World - over 2,200 research references on all aspects of bees
- Biological Control: A Guide to Natural Enemies in North America - tutorial on the concept and practice of biological control with photographs and descriptions of biological control (or biocontrol) agents of insect, disease and weed pests in North America
- BOMBUS-L - mailing list dedicated to discussion of bumblebees. To subscribe, send a message to LISTSERV@umdd.umd.edu with SUB BOMBUS-L in the body of your message. Maintained by David Inouye.
- Borror Laboratory of Bioacoustics - Ohio State University
- BugGuide.Net - community site with user-submitted images for identification, information on insect groups
- Buzzwords and New Zealand Beekeeping - beekeeping news, bees, statistics, honey descriptions
- Calodema Website of Dr TJ Hawkeswood - Website provides free PDF files of TJ Hawkeswood and his co-workers biological research.
- Canadian Association of Professional Apiculturists - beekeeping and pollination
- Canadian National Collection of Insects - 17 million specimens, mostly North American fauna. Ottawa, Canada.
- Carl Hayden Bee Research Center GEARS - research on bees and pollination. USDA-ARS
- Catalog of Stephanidae - (Hymenoptera)
- Chalcid Forum - published by the USDA Systematic Entomology Laboratory
- Checklist of the Social Vespidae of Michigan - includes Vespinae and Polistinae
- Chrysis.net - cuckoo wasps (Hymenoptera: Chrysididae). Image galleries, articles, research, hosts
- Common North American Arthropods - Extensive catalog of copyrighted high-resolution arthropod photographs.
- Conifer Defoliators of British Columbia - Decriptions and images of the conifer defoliating caterpillars and sawflies that occur within BC. Host trees and insects biology included.
- Danish Beekeepers' Association
- Dr. Frog's Recipe Page - "frog-approved" insect recipes
- E.H. Thorne (Beehives) Ltd. - Wragby, Lincoln, UK. Beekeeping events in the UK, courses for beginning beekeepers.
- ECatSym: Electronic World Catalog of Symphyta - Supported by GBIF, Global Biodiversity Information Facility, Copenhagen, the EcatSym Project is working on the first internet database for the approximately 10,000 valid sawfly taxa worldwide.
- EGW-L - The EGW-L list is a forum for discussion of the erythrina gall wasp (Quadrastichus erythrinae).
- Espacio Apicola - argentine beekeepers' magazine
- European Pine Sawfly images
- Evaniidae Research - The Evaniidae (Hymenoptera) are a medium-sized family of wasps without stings whose solitary larvae "parasitize" the eggcases of cockroaches
- FORMIS - a composite of several ant literature databases.  It contains citations for a large fraction of the world's ant literature (about 32,000 references).  FORMIS contains all known ant taxonomic literature (through 1996).  It also contains comprehensive bibliographies of leaf-cutting ants, fire ants, and Russian wood ants
- Georgia WOWBugs Project - Melittobia digitata, commonly found in nature but never before in the pre-college classroom. Educational materials developed to teach fundamental biological concepts to grades 5-12.
- Gruppo di Studio per Gli Insetti Sociali Universitàdi Firenze - Discovering Social Wasps. Study Group for Social Wasps of the Department of Animal Biology of the University of Florence, Italy. Italian and English. Biology and behaviour of social wasps (mainly Polistes)
- HANABACHI Japanese Bee Image Database - Each record is composed of family, genus and species (or subspecies), Japanese name, distribution data, type locality, type depository, source of the original description, synonymies, remarks, visiting or associated flowers, references, various images and distribution map.
- Harlan's Big Bugtography Web Page - photographs and observations about insects found in Iowa. Nontechnical.
- Hawaiian Ant Group - invasive ants in the Hawaiian Islands. Welcomes participation and discussion from persons with other island/invasive ant experiences.
- Honey Bees and Pollination - bee information site for those in the Virginia / Mid-Atlantic region of the USA
- Honeybee - students identify honeybee responsibilities inside the hive, importance of the honeybee to humans, and discover how honeybees communicate. Pre-K to 4th grade
- Hymenoptera - Tree of Life
- Hymenoptera Online Database - queries of information from museum specimens as well as the literature
- Ichnews - for those interested in Ichneumonoidea
- Illinois Natural History Survey - 6 million specimens. Several insect databases, including a searchable, specimen level Plecoptera database . Dates back to 1858
- Insect Field Collection Photos - Arizona Crop Information photos 2000-2003
- Insect Sounds from the Forests of Northern Thailand - crickets, cicadas, and even a sampling of "the blessed silence when the cicadas have stopped"
- Insects in Motion - Quicktime video clips of various insects showing feeding behavior and life stage development, including a bee stinging
- Institute of Zoology of National Ukrainian Academy of Sciences - Department of Taxonomy of Entomophagous Insects and Biocontrol. Kiev, Ukraine
- International Bee Research Association - IBRA aims to increase awareness of the vital role of bees in the environment and encourages the use of bees as wealth creators
- International Biotherapy Society - maggots, leeches and bees in modern medicine
- International Society of Hymenopterists
- International Union for the Study of Social Insects
- Internet Apiculture and Beekeeping Archive - articles from the Usenet newsgroup sci.agriculture.beekeeping, the logs from the listserv bee-l, FAQ files, and pointers to other beekeeping and apicultural resources, on and off the Internet
- Japanese Ants Image Database - taxonomy of Japanese ants
- John's Beekeeping Notebook - observation beehives, cell-plug queen rearing, experiences of a Peace Corps beekeeper in Fiji, top-bar beekeeping
- Key to Families and Genera of Japanese Bees
- Key to Genera of Ecitoninae - Hymenoptera: Formicidae
- Korea Beekeeping Association
- 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
- Macleay Museum Invertebrate Collection - 500,000 specimens. University of Sydney, Australia
- Maine Beekeeping - articles, reports and tips on beekeeping, calendar of events, recommended reading
- Mexican Bee Database - in FoxPro format
- Myrmecology - the scientific study of ants. Habitat, biology, image gallery, and recommended reading
- Myrmecology Society - encouraging ant enthusiasts and myrmecologists to communicate
- National Beekeepers Association of New Zealand
- Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County - Insects of the southwestern United States, aculeate hymenoptera, lepidoptera, diptera, coleoptera, odonata
- NECTAR - Netherlands Expertise Centre for Tropical Agricultural Resources. Non-governmental, non-profit association of beekeeping experts in the Netherlands
- New World Army Ants - ongoing revisionary work with the army ants of the new world
- Non-native ants: invasive and exotic species - biology and geographic distributions of invasive ants, as well as other exotic species that may become invasive
- North Carolina State University Insect Collection - 1.1 million specimens. Emphasis on North Carolina insects and worldwide Homoptera
- Ohio State University Bee Breeding Program - bee breeding and instrumental insemination of honeybees including procedures, equipment and training
- PAG-L - The Pacific Ant Group was established in September 2003 to facilitate communication toward preventing establishment of Red Imported Fire Ant and other invasive ants in Pacific islands.
- Pheromones of Diprionids - pine sawfly pheromones for sustainable management of european forests
- Proctos - newsletter for workers on Proctotrupoidea s. lat.
- Queensland Museum - 500,000 specimens. Special collections of rainforest insects and parasitic wasps. Australia
- Raising Bees - from the Small Farm Resource
- Raising Bees - from the Small Farm Resource
- Reference Library of Digitized Insect Sounds - many diverse insect sounds, including sounds of insect pests of stored products
- SIWeb - Social Insects Web. systematics, phylogeny, distribution, images, literature and conservation of social insects. From Department of Entomology, American Museum of Natural History
- Snow Entomological Research Collection - 4.1 million specimens. University of Kansas Natural History Museum
- Social Behavior of Polistine Wasps - wasps were marked and videotaped. Students use observation skills to study animal behavior.
- Social wasps (Vespidae: Polistinae, Vespinae) of Siberia - A review of social wasps (Vespidae: Polistinae, Vespinae) of Siberia with distribution; from: Far Eastern Entomologist 57: 1-11 (1998) with some additions and corrections
- Solitary Bees: an Addition to Honey Bees - use of Osmia (orchard bees) for pollination. Includes a list of suppliers.
- Sphecos - the newsletter for aculeate wasp researchers (now defunct)
- Stridulation Sounds of Black Fire Ants - Solenopsis richteri in different situations
- Symphytos - web forum for sawfly and horntail (Hymenoptera: Symphyta) workers
- The Amazing Beecam - video feed from a beehive
- The Ants of Cachoeira Nature Reserve - by Jochen H. Bihn. Information on ecology and taxonomy of ants from Cachoeira Nature Reserve, Brazil.
- The Bumblebee Pages - life cycle, frequently asked questions, behavior
- The Hive and the Honeybee - Phillips' Beekeeping Collection online apiculture library
- 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 Pollination Home Page - portal to pollination information and images
- The Stephanidae Homepage - about Stephanid wasps (Hymenoptera)
- 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
- Torre Bueno's Glossary for Social Insects - entomological glossary
- Univeristy of Central Florida Collection of Arthropods - aka the Bug Closet. 135,000 specimens. 33% Coleoptera, 45% Hymenoptera.
- University of Colorado Museum - 550,000 specimens. Many from Rocky Mountain region
- University of Nebraska State Museum - 2 million specimens from U.S. Great Plains and worldwide
- University of Queensland Insect Collection - 700,000 specimens. Australia
- Varroa mites and how to catch them - treatment, drone method
- WAXWeb - or the discovery of television among the bees. Not an entomological film, but with beekeeping theme.
- World Chalcidoidea Database on CD-ROM - complete World Catalogue of all 26,000 names used in Chalcidoidea, more than 95,000 host records, over 110,000 distribution records, more than 300 colour images of adults and immature stages of most families, and an immense amount of information on their use in biocontrol, biology, physiology, etc. Windows only.
- World Educational Films - entomological videos documenting life histories and parasitic hymenoptera. Some clips available online
- Woyke Honey Bee Page - describes genetic expression of body color in different species of honey bees. Warsaw Agricultural University, Poland.
- Yellowjackets of the Northwestern United States - Yellowjacket biology, systematics, literature and keys.
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