Nine photographs of well known dipteran, lepidopteran, and hemipteran mimics based on stinging or distasteful models. Photos are of high quality and useful for demonstrations or teaching insect identification.

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Photographic gallery containing 133 different images, including adults and immatures, of 37 beneficial arthropod species or groups. The format is HTML. For any PC or Mac that has a CD-ROM drive and a Web browser. Photo quality is very high and many of the arthropods depicted are not often found in other sources.

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Photographic gallery containing 60 images of cockroach adults, nymphs, and egg cases. The following species are represented: American, Asian, Australian, brown, brownbanded, cuban, field, Florida woods, German, giant cave, Madagascar hissing, oriental, smokybrown, and Surinam cockroaches. Requires a CD-ROM drive and a web browser. Most pictures are of exceptional quality. The link to the Deathshead cockroach was broken.

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Nine high-quality, interactive images showing insects that blend with their surroundings with spectacular success. Once selected, the image can be rolled-over to remove the background showing only the insect in question. Orchid mantid, several Lepidoptera, and a couple of Orthoptera are included.

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This site includes images, sounds, animation and videos on insects. Great site for undergraduate students learning about the world of insects. Insect images include beneficial insects, common insects, vegetable insects, and agricultural insects. Videos depict insects which include butterflies, ants, grasshoppers, and thrips. Sounds available are for cicadas. An audio section on fire ant sounds and songs about fire ants is entertaining and informative (even if some of ther biological information in the song Freddie Fire Ant, isn't exactly completely accurate). Quality of materials is uniformly accurate. A thrips video link is not working, however.

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Twenty photographs of insect induced plant growth; galls. Oak, maple, apple, and goldenrod examples are offered as well as others in large photos with the insect culprit.

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This is a commercial site that sells insect specimens. Usually quite spectacular specimens, for display. However, they have many excellent photographs of spectacular insects online as well as a fair amount of information about species classification, and origin.

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Images of common midwestern insects, arranged by common category (e.g., agricultural crops, stored products) and by insect order. Though the gallery is not complete the quality of the images is high. This gallery is limited in extent, but the images are of uniformly very high quality. The identifications are accurate and several illustrate rarely captured behaviors or stages. Continued development of the gallery is encouraged!

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This site provides a set of about 20 insect illustrations, originally drawn on canvas as a WPA project during the Depression and made available by the Department of Entomology at the University of Illinois. The illustrations are primarily overviews of some of the more common insect orders. The size of the original illustrations was ca. 1.0 x 1.5 m, and some of the scanned versions on this site are small and, therefore, lacking in details. Each illustration also has a link to the Tree of Life to provide taxonomic information. The site is of particular value from a historical perspective. Of even more historical value and interest is the associated link to the Department's wonderful lantern slide collection, showing entomologists in profile and in action, along with old pictures of insects and entomological situations in field and laboratory. Those interested in teaching the history of entomology would benefit from the link to the lantern slides.

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More than 31,000 photographs of insects of most orders, as well as mites, ticks, spiders, and scorpions, are available at this site, a joint project of the University of Georgia and the USDA Forest Service. The site boasts more than 800 photographers. Many light-microscope images of smaller insects are provided. Some natural history information is provided for many of the images.

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As of this writing two orders and one suborder of insects are covered: Odonata, Auchenorrhyncha, and Coleoptera. This is largely a photo gallery with some distinctive character descriptions and distribution information.

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This is a commercial site intended as a resource for teachers and students. The site features images of many arthropods, including insects and spiders, and a good number of video clips.

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This web site features astonishing copyrighted photographs of about 180 species of beetles, for aesthetic purposes, but also of value for illustrations when teaching. All illustrations are arranged by Latin binomial, with emphasis on scarabs, buprestids, and longhorned beetles, but also including weevils, click beetles, and a few ground beetles. A moth page is under construction, and two lovely beetle books are for sale.

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Images of mutant cockroaches, provided by the Genetic Stock Center for the German Cockroach at Virginia Tech. Useful as a visual aid for explaining the effects of mutation. A linkage map is also available.

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Nine high quality photos of various insects important in pollination. Photos include several Hymenoptera, a soldier beetle, a fly, and several Lepidoptera. Photos are useful for demonstration, and for teaching insect identification.

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Nine high quality insect predator photographs including a mantid, a tiger beetle, a lacewing, ambush bug, and more. Excellent for putting into classroom presentations, or use for teaching insect ecology or behavior.

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Photographic gallery containing 81 images of pests of stored products, including eggs, larvae and pupae and damage photos. Mites, beetles, moths, and psocids are included. A web browser and CD-ROM drive are required to view the images. Images are of high quality and the accompanying text is generally accurate and informative. The larval lesser mealworm is mis-captioned as an adult. Navigation of the images is easy.

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A collection of colored scanning electron microscope images of insects (and a few spiders) by Dennis Kunkel Microscopy, Inc. The images are arranged as FBI-style rap sheets, each one containing the scientific name and facts about that species. There are two different “12 most wanted bugs” pages: Bug Mugs (head shots) and Bug Bodies. Several species appear on both pages. The images are clear and the fact sheets are easy to read (although no references are provided). Also check out the "Zoom In!" link at the top of the page for more insect images.

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Honey bee workers communicate distance and direction of a food source to other workers through a dance language. A diagram of the dance as well as general and technical articles (PDF) about the dance language are provided. Site currently has a number of broken links and images at the top of the page. Fix these or make a stand-alone page and re-submit the site for approval.

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Photographic gallery containing 63 images of pest beetles that attack vegetables, including adults, pupae, larvae,eggs, and the insect damage. Many illustrate rarely photographed insects; most of are good quality, some are excdeptional. Photos are provided in 3 resolutions and formats; one includes text with photographer's information, etc. Requires a CD-ROM drive and a web browser.

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Photographic gallery containing 96 images of pests that attack vegetables, including adults, pupae, larvae, and eggs; and what the insect damage looks like. Covers mites, true bugs, hoppers, whiteflies, aphids, grasshoppers, crickets, and thrips. Most of the images are of good quality; some are exceptional. Some images depict frequently photographed insects, but several are unique. Images are offered in 3 resolutions and file formats. Requires a CD-ROM drive and a web browser.

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Photographic gallery containing 108 images of lepidopteran pests that attack vegetables, including adults, pupae, larvae, and eggs of most; pictures of damage also accompany many species. Covers caterpillars and moths/butterflies. Most of the photos are of good quality with some of excelletn quality; several species included are rarely photographed, while others are frequently documented and may be found in other sources. Images are offered in three resolutions and formats, including one with text acknowledging the phtographer. The depiction of the neonate tobacco hornworm may be a tomato hornwomr; it is difficult to tell from the picture. Requires a CD-ROM drive and a web browser.

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Nine high-quality photographs of insects that demonstrate bright yellows and oranges, often in banded patterns, which provide predators information about distaste or poison. Great for demonstrations or insect identification lessons.

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