Weblinks: Entomology

A series of five volumes entitled “A Handbook to the Order Lepidoptera” was published as part of Lloyd’s Natural History by Edward Lloyd, Ltd. in London, 1896. The series was edited by R. Bowdler Sharpe who was a curator in the Zoological Department of the British Museum. Sharpe was an extremely knowledgeable Ornithologist and worked closely with John Gould on his projects finishing some after Gould’s death. This particular series was authored by the eminent,W.F. Kirby, from the Zoology Department of the British Museum and one of the World’s Authorities on Butterflies and Moths. He was the Author of “European Butterflies and Moths” which is a great reference work and numerous other books.
These can be either downloaded or read for free at archive.org
 
Volume 1

Description of the Proctotrupidae family of parasitic wasps found in North America.
 

Atlas of beetles of Russia (a project dedicated to the 100th anniversary of G.G. Jacobson's book "Beetles of Russia").

The journal for butterfly, moth, and dragonfly enthusiasts.
 

The national society dedicated to studying and recording bees, wasps & ants (aculeate Hymenoptera)  in Britain & Ireland.

An extensive gallery of photographs of beetles

Beetle News is a quarterly (March, June, September and December), is a UK online publication.

A consortium of 12 natural history and botanical libraries that cooperate to digitize and make accessible the legacy literature of biodiversity held in their collections and to make that literature available for open access and responsible use as a part of a global “biodiversity commons.” BHL also serves as the foundational literature component of the Encyclopedia of Life (EOL).

Website whose purpose is to illustrate as as many of the True Bugs (Hemiptera) as possible

The aim of the British Dragonfly Society is to promote and encourage the study and conservation of dragonflies and their natural habitats, especially in the United Kingdom.

Butterfly Conservation was formed by a small group of dedicated naturalists in 1968 following the alarming decline of many beautiful butterflies

The scheme has monitored changes in the abundance of butterflies throughout the United Kingdom since 1976. Over the 32 years of the scheme, recorders have made over 170,000 weekly visits to 1500 separate sites, walking over 375,000 km and counting over 12.5 million butterflies!

Website of the Coleopterists Society, an International Society devoted to the study of beetles. Publishes The Coleopterists Bulletin a refereed quarterly journal, which includes a wide variety of articles on taxonomy and ecology of beetle.

GBIF is an international organisation that is working to make the world's biodiversity data accessible everywhere in the world. GBIF and its many partners work to mobilise the data, and to improve search mechanisms, data and metadata standards, web services, and the other components of an Internet-based information infrastructure for biodiversity.
 
GBIF makes available data that are shared by hundreds of data publishers from around the world.
 
 

Primarily a collation of published interactions between Great Britain 's invertebrate herbivores (insects and mites) and their host plants. There are also some interactions for the invertebrates closely associated with herbivores, such as predators, parasitoids, cleptoparasites and mutualists.

An interactive site for all things related to Diptera (flies and midges). Contains articles and news relating to Diptera, gallery and user forum.

An online reference source and database for every one of the 1.8 million species that are named and known on this planet.

The Field Studies Council is an environmental education charity committed to helping people understand and be inspired by the natural world. Thousands of students every year experience the FSC through fieldwork and cross-curricular courses at our network of 17 centres across the UK.

Website for those interested in recording moths
regularly in their garden, anywhere in the UK and Ireland.

Website for those interested in the True Bugs (Heteroptera) of the British Isles. Features book reviews, a twice yearly newsletter, and links to related sites.

German/English forum discussing Hymenoptera.
 

Photographic gallery of insects found around Osnabrück in Germany. Manly hymenoptera, including Ichneumonidae, Vespidae, Chrysididae, Symphyta, and Apidae. Other insect orders too including Diptera, Lepidoptera, and Hemiptera.

 

iSpot is a website provided by The Open University as part of the Open Air Laboratories (OPAL) project, which is funded by the National Lottery through the Big Lottery Fund. The purpose is to allow anyone to upload images of organism and have them identified and discussed.

The Non-native Species Secretariat has responsibility for helping to coordinate the approach to invasive non-native species in Great Britain.  We are responsible to a Programme Board which represents the relevant governments and agencies of England, Scotland and Wales.
 
Site contains fact and identification sheets for monitoring the spread of invasive entomnon-native species.

The scheme welcomes records from everyone and you can use the Online Recording Form to submit details of your sightings. While all records are of interest, if you are able to attach a photo to your record this enables our experts to verify your sighting.

A guide designed to assist users to identify invasive ant species commonly encountered in the Pacific Island region. The guide covers four subfamilies, 20 genera and 44 species.
 
Has a glossary of terms with very useful diagrams and descrptions.
 

Resource for people who are interested in studying tachinid flies (Tachinidae). The scheme was set up primarily to collate records and to act as a place where people interested in studying tachinids can exchange information.

Founded in 1872 as the South London Entomological and Natural History Society now has members from all over the British Isles and abroad. The Society publishes a quarterly jopurnal, and maintains a comprehensive reference collections of Diptera, Coleoptera, Odonata, and British and European Lepidoptera.

The Open Air Laboratories (OPAL) network is an initiative that is open to anyone with an interest in nature. Hosted by the Natural History Museum, the site aims to create and inspire a new generation of nature-lovers by getting people to explore, study, enjoy and protect their local environment.

The Tree of Life Web Project is a collection of information about biodiversity compiled collaboratively by hundreds of expert and amateur contributors. Its goal is to contain a page with pictures, text, and other information for every species and for each group of organisms, living or extinct. Connections between Tree of Life web pages follow phylogenetic branching patterns between groups of organisms, so visitors can browse the hierarchy of life and learn about phylogeny and evolution as well as the characteristics of individual groups.

Website dedicated to recording hoverflies in the UK. Contains member forum, photo gallery, checklists, and maps.

Eggs, Larvae and pupae of Butterflies and Moths.

Online guide to the moths of Great Britain and Ireland.

Red Data Books for Entomology.

Bioinformatics resource for wasps recorded from the Afrotropical biogeographical region (Africa south of the Sahara including Madagascar and smaller surrounding islands).
 

Wild About Britain has hundreds of thousands of pages about British wildlife, the Environment and the Great Outdoors; from birds, butterflies, fungi and trees to climate change, marine life, astronomy and the weather.

An ongoing attempt to list all of the valid species of Odonata. A downloadable world list of Odonata species can be found at the University of Puget Sound as an Excel document.