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!!

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

• 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

• Dave Goulson - on Youtube (through Invidious)
• Deep Look by PBS - on Youtube (through Invidious)

• 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

• Levon Biss - includes stickbug egg case collection. See also the Amber series
• Chinese ink paintins on Archive.org

• Ant Wiki - Ants
• Ant Maps - Ants
• Aphids on the World's Plants - Aphids
• Buzz About Bees - Bees
• * Bumblebee.org - Bumblebees
• * Crown Bees: Free educator modules on Mason Bees
• The Coleopterists Society - Beetles
• Cicada Mania - Cicadas
• Dipterists Forum - Dipterans, or flies
• Flies - Dipterans (Italian and English)
• *"An Underappreciated Insect: The Syrphid Fly" - Hoverflies
• *Phorid Catalog - phorid flies
• *Zombee Watch - the Zombie Fly (Apocephalus borealis)
• Lost Ladybugs - Ladybugs
• Moth Shots - Moths
• * Sphingidae and Saturniidae and also lepidopterans in general
• * Worldwide sphingidae moth websites
• Spider ID - Spiders
• * Joro Spider Watch - Joro spiders
• Tumblr: Addicted 2 Wasps - Wasps

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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