Entomology

antbase.org

This glossary of entomological terms is based on Torre Bueno's Glossary, from which all terms relevant to ants, wasps, bees and termites where extracted.

Biological Control: A Guide to Natural Enemies in North America

This guide provides photographs and descriptions of biological control (or biocontrol) agents of insect, disease and weed pests in North America. It is also a tutorial on the concept and practice of biological control and integrated pest management (IPM).

Biosystematic database of world diptera

The BDWD is a set of tools to aid users in finding information about flies. The two main components of the BDWD are the Nomenclator and the Species database.

California Beetle Database --- Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History

This database contains over 50,000 records of beetle species in California, including collection and literature records. About one-third of the records are georeferenced and mappable.

California Moth Specimen Database

compiled by Kelly Richers since 1996 as a resource to better survey and understand California moths 

Ecological Database of the World's Insect pathogens

Offers information on fungi, viruses, protozoa, molllicutes, nematodes, and bacteria that are infectious in insects, mites, and related arthropods.

MCZ Type Database@ Harvard Entomology

his online database contains records for primary types in the entomology collections of the Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ). The MCZ insect type collection, one of the largest in North America, currently preserves the primary types of more than 28,000 species, representing 29 orders, 565 families, and 7,578 genera.

National Agricultural Insect Collection

The National Agricultural Insect Collection is a reference insect collection of the National Agricultural Research Institute (NARI) of Papua New Guinea. The collection contains a large number of insect specimens (~200,000) collected from all over Papua New Guinea. The specimen records contain information on distribution, host ranges and pest statuses, which can be used as reference information for identification

NCBI

Established in 1988 as a national resource for molecular biology information, NCBI creates public databases, conducts research in computational biology, develops software tools for analyzing genome data, and disseminates biomedical information - all for the better understanding of molecular processes affecting human health and disease.

Nematodes as Biological Control Agents of Insects

ScaleNET

rovide comprehensive information on the scale insects of the world, including queriable information on their classification, nomenclatural history, distribution, hosts, and literature. Currently information can be retrieved for 35 families, namely Aclerdidae (grass scales), Arnoldidae, Asterolecaniidae, Beesoniidae, Carayonemidae, Cerococcidae (ornate pit scales), Coccidae (soft scales), Conchaspididae (false armored scales), Dactylopiidae (cochineal scales), Diaspididae, Electrococcidae, Eriococcidae (felt scales), Grimaldiellidae, Grohnidae, Halimococcidae, Hammanococcidae, Inkaidae, Jersicoccidae, Kermesidae (gall-like scales), Kerriidae (lac scales), Kukaspididae, Labiococcidae, Lebanococcidae, Lecanodiaspididae (false pit scales), Lithuanicoccidae, Margarodidae, Micrococcidae, Ortheziidae (ensign scales), Pennygullaniidae, Phenacoleachiidae, Phoenicococcidae (date scales), Pseudococcidae (mealybugs), Serafinidae, Stictococcidae and Weitschatidae.