Bugs, or rather, insects and allies: all lifeforms small, crawling and maligned

🐛 🕷️ 🐜 🦋 🐝 🪲 🪳 🦗 🦟 🐞 July 14 is BE NICE TO BUGS DAY... but be kind to insects everyday!!

Link roundups on specific topics:
Media about how this world is killing insects: massdeath.html
About insect inner lives: feelings.html

Things I wrote and not just links to other sites:
On non-interference
Fuck pesticides
Questions and answers about fearing and respecting insects
DIY - alter the environment, distribute materials, appreciate...

Booklists I made:
animalsyeah on LibraryThing - Growing a collection of books on Insects and Allies

Links to resources about loving, appreciating and understanding insects as well as creepy-crawlies generally.

• Tumblr: One Nice Bug Per Day
• Neocities: Bug Zone
• Blogspot: Bug Eric
• Ask Entomologists - on hiatus but lots of posts in archive
• Tumblr: Herps and Birds
• Bogleech: 100 ARTHROPODA BEGGING TO BE POKEMON

• NC Tree Bands and Arthropod "Collateral Damage"

• Know Your Insect - fantastic user-submitted image galleries and ID descriptions
• iNaturalist
• BugGuide.net
• Smithsonian: Insect Info
• University of Alberta: Bugs 101 - Free online course
• Wikipedia Portal: Insects
• Tv Tropes: Somewhere, an Entomologist is Crying

• Index Of Insects & Spiders On Wayne's Word
• INSECT ADVENTURES BY J. HENRI FABRE - hosted on Project Gutenberg
• Darwin and Insects

• Arthro-pod (Blogspot) archive.org
• Bug Banter - Xerces Society
• PolliNation (OSU website)

• Dave Goulson - on Youtube (through Invidious)
• Deep Look by PBS - on Youtube (through Invidious)
• Microworlds: Bugs - Youtube videos on Hakai's website

• Xerces Society Publications - PDFs and printables, pertaining to invertebrates broadly but lots of insect content
• *Wings: Essays on Invertebrate Conservation
• Entomological Society Journal
• Amateur Entomologists' Society Publications
• Entomology Today

• Levon Biss - includes stickbug egg case collection. See also the Amber series
• Chinese ink paintins on Archive.org
• Underwater Architects: the Caddisfly Art of Hubert Duprat

Focus on specific types of insects:

Various

• Gallformers - look up type of host plant to see associated gall-forming insects!

Coleoptera - Beetles

• The Coleopterists Society
• Lost Ladybugs - Ladybugs

Diptera - Flies

• Dipterists Forum - Dipterans, or flies
• Flies - Dipterans (Italian and English)
• Friday Flies - Diptera, on Bogleech
• Robber Flies of the World
• "An Underappreciated Insect: The Syrphid Fly" - Hoverflies
• Phorid Catalog - phorid flies
• Zombee Watch - the Zombie Fly (Apocephalus borealis)

Hemiptera - True Bugs

• Aphids on the World's Plants - Aphids
• Cicada Mania - Cicadas

Hymenoptera - Bees, Wasps, Ants, Sawflies

• Ant Wiki - Ants
• Ant Maps - Ants
• AntWeb - Ants
• Buzz About Bees - Bees
• Bumblebee.org - Bumblebees
• Crown Bees: Free educator modules on Mason Bees
• Identification Atlas of the Vespidae (Hymenoptera, Aculeata) of the northeastern Nearctic region - Vespidae Wasps
• Tumblr: Addicted 2 Wasps

Lepidoptera - Moths, Butterflies

• Moth Shots - Moths
• North American Moth Photographers Group - Moths
• Sphingidae and Saturniidae and also lepidopterans in general
• Worldwide sphingidae moth websites
• Microleps - microlepidoptera! Wee moths
• Tropical Lepidoptera Research
• Live Monarch - Hospital - how to repair a butterfly wings

Neuroptera - Net-winged Insects

• Lacewing Digital Library

Odonata - Dragonflies, Damselflies

• Odonata Central - Dragonfly & Odonate Taxonomy and Sightings

Orthoptera and allies - grasshoppers, crickets, stickbugs, mantises, cockroaches, earwigs and more...

• The Orthopterists' Society - "We’re an international organization dedicated to connecting people interested in Orthoptera (grasshoppers, crickets, katydids, etc.) and the other 9 insect orders that comprise Polyneoptera (“orthopteroids”): Blattodea (+Isoptera), Dermaptera, Embioptera, Grylloblattodea, Mantodea, Mantophasmatodea, Phasmida, Plecoptera, and Zoraptera."
• Orthoptera Species File - Taxonomic database of the world's grasshoppers, locusts, katydids, crickets, and related insects
• Orthoptera & Allied Insects - Grasshoppers and Related Insects Recording Scheme of Britain and Ireland
• Blattodea Culture Group (inactive; archive.org link) - cockroaches
• Blattodea Culture Group - Cockroack Studies Archive!!!!! 0 - Google Drive
• A Deep Look Into the Wacky and Wild Lives of Earwigs - on Knowable Magazine

Not insects and still precious anyway

• Collembola.org - Collembola springtails (http site)
• Isopod.site - "Isopod Photo and Knowledge Repository"
• Marine, Freshwater and Terrestrial Isopod Crustaceans
• Millibase - Myriapods (millipedes, centipedes...)
• Littoral Myriapods - by the sea
• Spiderween "an arachnophobe-safe guide to spiders", on Bogleech
• Spider ID - Spiders
• Joro Spider Watch - Joro spiders
• Arachnoboards - "Arachnoboards.com is the Internet's largest forum community for invertebrate hobbyists of all types!"

My favourite insects? Hoverflies, certainly.
I rather like geometer moths... Nemoria genus has a place in my heart.
And, I am partial to shiny green (smaragd-coloured) beetles...

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