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Lists
- Insect Collections (Iowa State Entomology)
Provides recommended sources of insect collections. 1-01
- Insect Images (Iowa State Entomology)
Provides pictures of insects, by species.
- Insect Resources (Iowa State Entomology)
Provides recommended sources of information for K-12 educators.
- Insects (Insectlopedia)
Provides sources of information on Antlions, Beetles, Dragonflies, Mites, Termites, Ants, Butterflies, Fleas, Mosquitoes, Ticks, Arachnids, Cicadas, Flies, Moths, Wasps, Bees, Cockroaches, Mayflies, and Praying Mantids. Includes a search engine. 2-01
- Insects (Matin)
Provides sources of information on insects, primarily for children.
- Insects (Yahoo)
Provides sources of information and pictures of insects.
- Insects - Endangered (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service) 6-99
- Insects Resources by Type (Iowa State University - VanDyk)
Provides information on insects and pesticides. 11-01
Materials
- Drawings of Each Type (Order) of Insects (University of Illinois)
Provides drawings of insects, but no descriptions. 11-01
- Images of Insects (Colorado State University) 1-01
- Insects Coloring Book (WesternExterminator.com)
Provides pictures of insects for coloring. 11-01
- See Like a Bee (B-Eye)
Shows how images may appear to a bee.
- UD Entomology Home Page
Papers
- 3D Insects (Virginia Tech - Sharov)
Provides 3D and animated images of insects. 6-01
- Anatomy of Insects (EarthLife.net)
Provides descriptions and drawings of insect body parts. 11-01
- Ant Supercolony Discovered (CNN.com)
"It's the largest cooperative unit ever recorded...." "The 3,600-mile colony consists of billions of Argentine ants living in millions of nests that cooperate with one another." 4-02
- Ants - Parasite Ants (ABC News - Dye)
"Herbers has spent much of her life studying 'slave making ants' that invade other ant colonies in a vicious battle to the end, but now she has stumbled upon a mystery she admits she doesn't understand. In the midst of all that mayhem, she has found ants that invade other colonies as parasites, and the parasites and hosts live peacefully side by side." 2-04
- Ants, Argentine (Insecta-Inspecta.com)
Provides interesting and detailed descriptions of the ants and their social structures. Includes drawings. 10-00
- Ants, Army (Insecta-Inspecta.com)
Provides interesting and detailed descriptions of the ants and their social structures. Includes drawings. 10-00
- Ants, Leaf Cutter (Insecta-Inspecta.com)
Provides interesting and detailed descriptions of the ants and their social structures. Includes drawings. 10-00
- Ants, Red Fire (Insecta-Inspecta.com)
Provides interesting and detailed descriptions of the ants and their social structures. Includes drawings. 10-00
- Appreciation of Insects (Sear)
Provides information on the different orders of insects, along with pictures. Shows how humans and insects interrelate and need each other.
- Arthropods (Thomas)
"By nearly any measure, the most successful animals on the planet are the arthropods. They have conquered land, sea and air, and make up over three-fourths of all currently known living and fossil organisms, or over one million species in all." Arthropods include spiders, insects, and others. 3-00
- Bees, Honey (Insecta-Inspecta.com)
Provides an interesting description of the bees, as well as a drawing. 10-00
- Bees, Killer (Insecta-Inspecta.com)
Provides an interesting description of the bees, as well as a drawing. 10-00
- Beetles, Scarab (Insecta-Inspecta.com)
Provides an interesting description of the beetles, as well as a drawing. 10-00
- Butterflies, Monarch (Insecta-Inspecta.com)
Provides an interesting description of the butterflies, as well as a drawing. butterfly 10-00
- By Type of Insect (The Bug Page)
Provides information and images of insects by order or common name. Includes a search engine. 6-01
- Centipede (Iowa Insect Information Notes)
Provides information on identifying and controlling house centipedes. Recommends not trying to control the outdoor variety.
- Classification of Insects (EarthLife.net)
Describes insects by taxonomic name and common name. 11-01
- Crickets, Field (Insecta-Inspecta.com)
Provides an interesting description of the crickets, as well as a drawing. 10-00
- Entomology (Museum of Natural History of Los Angeles County) 2-01
- Fleas (Insecta-Inspecta.com)
Provides an interesting description of the particular type of fleas believed to be responsible for spreading the "black plague" during the Middle Ages. Includes a picture. 10-00
- Fleas (Mainland Pest Control)
Provides information on identifying and responding to fleas.
- Glossary for Insects (EarthLife.net)
Defines basic words used in entomology, the study of insects. 11-01
- Household Insects (Clemson University)
Provides pictures and descriptions of common household insects, such as ants, flies, termites, roaches, and silverfish. 11-01
- Household Insects (Cook's Termite and Pest Control)
Provides information on identifying and controlling common household insects, such as earwigs, ants, termites, centipedes, bees, wasps, silverfish, millipedes, cockroaches, and flies. Also discusses rodents, such as mice and rats. "Indoors, these pests may be controlled with natural or synthetic insecticide aerosols, such as pyrethrins."
- Impact of Insects on Human History (Mack and Stone)
Provides a history of beliefs about insects, as well as their impact on society.
- Insect Pictures and Information (VirtualInsectary.com - Stein)
Provides pictures and facts on 20 insects. 9-01
- Insects (Parkinson)
Provides pictures and facts on 12 insects (bugs), including aphids, termites, fleas, flies, ants, and mites. 1-02
- Insects and Other Uniramia (University of California, Berkeley)
Provides information on insects, by phylogeny. 11-01
- Insects by Group (Sear)
Provides information and pictures of insects within the 14 orders or groups.
- Insects by Type (Clemson University)
Provides pictures and descriptions of insects by type. 11-01
- Mosquitoes (Insecta-Inspecta.com)
Provides an interesting description of mosquitoes that transmit diseases to humans, such as malaria or yellow fever. Includes pictures. 10-00
- Mosquitoes (NISE Project - The Why Files)
Provides a wide assortment of facts about mosquitoes and mosquito behavior.11-99
- New Order of Insect Discovered (PlanetArk)
Provides news on the Manophasmatodea, the newest order of insects to be categorized. It has been called the "Gladiator." 5-02
- New Order of Insect Discovered (Scientific American)
Provides news on the Manophasmatodea, the newest order of insects to be categorized. "For the first time in 87 years, scientists have discovered an entirely new order of insects. Two of the three known wingless, paper clip-size creatures were collected in 1909 and 1950 and had been gathering dust in museum drawers ever since. The third lies entombed in 45 million-year-old Baltic amber." " 'This discovery is comparable to finding a living mastodon or saber-tooth tiger....' " 5-02
- Orders of Insects (EarthLife.net)
Describes each of the 32 orders of insects and provides pictures of insects that are examples of each order. 11-01
- Praying Mantis (Insecta-Inspecta.com)
Provides an interesting description of mantises, as well as a picture. mantids 10-00
- Records of Insects (University of Florida)
Provides insect records, such as for the fastest, longest, heaviest, smallest, largest, loudest, most resistant to insecticides, and more. 6-01
- Termites, African (Insecta-Inspecta.com - Holguin)
Provides an interesting description of termites. Includes pictures. 10-00
- Termites, Nose (Insecta-Inspecta.com)
Provides an interesting description of termites. Includes pictures. 10-00
Projects
- Bugs as Pets (Bug Club)
Provides information for keeping bugs as pets. 11-01
- Bugs as Pets (EarthLife.net)
Provides information for keeping bugs as pets. 11-01
- Classification of Insects (Bug Club - Pitts)
Provides an online program to help children (and adults) identify the classification and name of insects, based on physical characteristics.
- Insect Projects for the Classroom (University of Kentucky)
Provides classroom activities related to insects. Also called bugs. 11-01
Worksheets
- Bees Worksheets (AbcTeach)
Provides dozens of printable worksheets by theme. 8-01
- Butterflies Worksheets (AbcTeach)
Provides dozens of printable worksheets by theme. 8-01
- Cut Outs for Insects (Learning Page.com)
Provides cut outs for insects. Includes Monarch Butterfly, Field Cricket, Io Moth, Elegant Crab Spider, Ladybug Beetle, Black Carpenter Ant, Stag Beetle, Praying Mantis, Potter Wasp, Periodical Cicada, American Grasshopper, True Katydid, American Cockroach, Green June Beetle, Ten Spot Dragonfly, Boll Weevil, Tarantula Spider, Earwig, Honey Bee, and Black Widow Spider. Requires Acrobat Reader. 5-00
- Insect Worksheets (Comp Ed - Free Worksheets)
Provides 8 worksheets, with an emphasis on bees. 11-99
- Insects Worksheets (AbcTeach)
Provides dozens of printable worksheets, specializing in a few insects. 8-01
- Ladybugs Worksheets (AbcTeach)
Provides dozens of printable worksheets by theme. 8-01
- Praying Mantis Worksheets (AbcTeach)
Provides dozens of printable worksheets by theme. 8-01
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