Here are some USGS Web pages with more information on insects and Anywhere:
Insects, arachnids, & annelids
Website for links to USGS and non-USGS websites with information on insects, arachnids, and annelids suitable students arranged by grade levels.
(Score: 1.000)
Invertebrates
Section from Our Living Resources with overview and selected articles with emphasis on insects including general insect information, butterflies, grasshoppers, and stoneflies, plus articles on Illinois cave biota and mussels.
(Score: 1.000)
Mayflies of the United States
Links to checklists and species maps showing the distribution of mayflies in the United States with links to other information websites on mayflies and reference list.
(Score: 0.690)
National Wildlife Health Center (NWHC) West Nile Virus Project
National Wildlife Health Center study of the West Nile Virus to learn the current geographic extent, to understand how the virus moves between birds, mosquitoes, and humans, and to predict future movements of the virus.
(Score: 0.690)
Pollinator declines
Discussion of the decline of domesticated honeybees, butterflies, moths, birds, bats and other mammals that have play a crucial role in the pollination of flowering commercial and wild plants with links to related information.
(Score: 0.690)
Salvinia molesta, Salvinia weevil, Savinia minima
Life history and identification of Salvinia species, a floating, rootless tree fern and a noxious aquatic weed. Site includes posters, instructions on submitting sightings, how to subscribe to a listserv on the weed, and a bibliography.
(Score: 0.690)
Stoneflies of the United States
Links to checklists and species maps showing the distribution of stoneflies in the United States with links to other information websites on stoneflies and reference list.
(Score: 0.690)
Tiger beetles of the United States
Links to checklists and species maps showing the distribution of tiger beetles in the United States with links to photographs, other information websites on invertebrates, and reference list.
(Score: 0.690)
West Nile virus
Informational site provides links to data, news updates, information, and maps related to outbreaks of the West Nile virus and mosquito-borne encephalitis in the United States.
(Score: 0.690)
Africanized bees in North America
Links to research projects that will improve the ability to detect, monitor and predict the effects of invasive species, including exotic animals, on native ecosystems of the Pacific Southwest (California, Nevada, Utah, and Arizona).
(Score: 0.550)
National Wildlife Health Center NWHC West Nile Virus Project
National Wildlife Health Center study of the West Nile Virus to learn the current geographic extent, to understand how the virus moves between birds, mosquitoes, and humans, and to predict future movements of the virus.
(Score: 0.461)
Insects of Hawaii
Chapter from Status and Trends of the Nations Biological Resources focusing on insects and other arthropods of Hawaii with discussion of loss of abundance and diversity of native species, introduced parasites, and extinctions.
(Score: 0.456)
Definition:
Any of numerous usually small arthropod animals of the class Insecta, having an adult stage characterized by three pairs of legs and a body segmented into head, thorax, and abdomen and usually having two pairs of wings. Insects include flies, crickets, mosquitoes, beetles, butterflies, and bees. [American Heritage Dic. of the English Language, 4th ed.]
