Entomology on the Internet

Sites about ENTOMOLOGY and ANTS

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Introductional and Educational Sites

Gordons Entomological Homepage with over 6 megabytes of images and text for the young and those young at heart offers an introduction to the wonderful world of insects.

The Sonoran Arthropod Studies Institute (SASI), a membership-supported environmental and science education organization founded in 1986, is a model educational facility located in prime Sonoran Desert habitat with interpretive trails, laboratories, synoptic collections and a classroom equipped with video, computers and microscopes to aid outdoor education and scientific research focusing on the arthropods. Highlight: the Site of SASI offers a Virtual Nature Trail. So pack your bag (computer) and enjoy it

Entomology-Sites at University's

If you are looking for special information or a book....

.... visit the Bibliography Server, on which you can find several bibliographies working with bibtext. There you can also find FORMIS, an incredibly huge database containing almost all books, articles, etc. written about ants and Myrmecology.

The Myrmecological Society of Japan

offers a site with microscopic pictures of ants from Japan (dorsal view, top view, head). You have the possibility to see these pictures in .gif or .jpg. and above that can also have a look at the area plans showing
where the individual species can be found.

This is an absolut top site. So don't fail to look this up.

Japanese Ants Color Image Data Base

Ant Exhibition at the Museum of Comparative Zoology
in Harvard University Museums of Natural History

The Ant Exhibition is titled LIVING WITH ANTS and the Science of E. O. Wilson. On this site pictures of the exhibition are shown and explanations given about professor E. O. Wilson's work. Also, you will find information about some ant species, the museum collections, and the tools required to observe and collect ants.

Visit also: Ant Exhibition in Vienna.

Read the Florida Entomologist online.

The Florida Entomologist Online Magazine is an excellent site. Use the Acrobat link to get an ACROBAT-Reader (should you not have one yet) and then browse through the articles in the magazine to find one you are interested in. The articles contain top information about many insects, special reports on pest management and a lot more.

Articles about Ants from the Florida Entomologist:
Please visit Florida Entomologist's Site to read about FES's electronic publication project!

Oi, D. H., K. M. Vail, D. F. Williams, and D. N. Bieman - Indoor and Outdoor Foraging Locations of Pharaoh Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) and Control Strategies Using Bait Stations
Ferster, B. and Z. Prusak - A Preliminary Checklist of the Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Everglades National Park
Klotz, J. H., J. R. Mangold, K. M. VailL, L. R. Davis, Jr. and R. S. Patterson - A Survey of the Urban Pest Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Peninsular Florida
VanderMeer, R. K., C. S. Lofgren and J. A. Seawright - Specificity of the Red Imported Fire Ant (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) Phagostimulant Response to Carbohydrates
Delabie, J. H. C., I. C. Do Nascimento, P. Pacheco and A.B. Casimiro - Community Structure of House-Infesting Ants (Hymenoptera:Formicidae) in Southern Bahia, Brazil
Ba, A. S. and S. A. Phillips, Jr. - Degradation of Red Imported Fire Ant (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) Yolk Spheres
Briano, J., D. Jouvenaz, D. Wojcik, H. Cordo and R. Patterson - Protozoan and Fungal Diseases in Solenopsis richteri and S. quinquecuspis (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Buenos Aires Province, Argentina
Osborne, L. S., J. E. Peña and D. H. Oi - Predation by Tapinoma melanocephalum (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) on Twospotted Spider Mites (Acari: Tetranychidae) in Florida Greenhouses
Lockley, T. C. - Observations of Predation on Alate Queens of the Red Imported Fire Ant (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) by the Black and Yellow Garden Spider (Araneae: Araneidae)
Callcott, A. A. and H. L. Collins - Invasion and Range Expansion of Imported Fire Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in North America from 1918-1995
Oi, D. H., K. M. Vail and D. F. Williams - Field Evaluation of Perimeter Treatments for Pharaoh Ant (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) Control
Williams, D. F., W. A. Banks and C. S. Lofgren - Control of Solenopsis invicta (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) with Teflubenzuron