Useful Website Links
Many of the sites listed below
will have additional links to other sites that may be helpful. The Phases
of the Moon Site listed under the moth sites may be of particular interest to
moth collectors, as moths typically come to lights more strongly with a new
moon.
Educational/Informational Sites --
- Monarch Watch -- http://www.monarchwatch.org
-
Turning your
backyard into butterfly friendly habitat (specifically for the Monarch
-- Hermann Samano)
-
Butterflies in your playground -- my thanks to Stephanie and Dakota Lowe
for directing me to this website
and here is the broader
Insects in your playground (thanks to Mia Chaney for the suggestion)
-
Insect
Sites for Educators -- K - 12
-
Lepidoptera
resources for all ages
-
Bugguide
- Inaturalist
- Lepidoptera
-- Tree of Life
-
Barcode of Life -- Lepidoptera
Butterfly Houses/Gardens/Gardening
- Public Butterfly Gardens & Zoos -- http://butterflywebsite.com/gardens/index.cfm
- Butterflyworld (Florida) -- http://www.butterflyworld.com/
- Univ. of Alberta; Butterfly House -- http://www.discoveredmonton.com/devonian/butfly.html
-
Butterfly Gardening Resource Guide
http://www.planetnatural.com/butterfly-gardening-guide/
-
Callaway
Gardens Day Butterfly Center -- Pine Mountain, GA
- Butterfly
Pavillion -- Westminster, CO
-
http://www.avasflowers.net/a-guide-to-butterfly-gardens -- Ava Rose's
Article on butterfly gardening
-
How to build a butterfly garden in your backyard -- suggested by
Bella
-
The ultimate
guide to protecting butterflies and how to help them thrive in your garden
-- suggested by Claire Mitchell
- Do it yourself -- Gardening and Landscaping (thanks to Annie and Eric Pruitt) -- DIY Gardening and Landscaping Ideas
Associations and Information --
Worldwide Interest
- Lepidopterists'
Society Home Page
- Journal
of Research on the Lepidoptera -- Contents
-
Association
for Tropical Lepidoptera home page
-
The International Lepidoptera Survey
-
Electronic
Resources on Lepidoptera
-
The Butterfly WebSite
North America
- Carolina
Butterfly Society
- Southern Lepidopterists' Society
- Ohio
Lepidopterists' Society
-
SOUTHEAST ARIZONA
BUTTERFLY ASSOCIATION
- North American Butterfly Association -- http://www.naba.org
Africa
-
Lepidopterists' Society of Africa
Eurasia
- Heterocera
Sumatrana Society
Equipment/Books/Works of Art
- Bioquip -- http://www.bioquip.com
- Carolina Biological Supply -- http://www.carolina.com/
- Wedge
Entomological Research Foundation -- suppliers of the Moths of North
America fascicles
-
Welcome to...A World for Butterflies
- Traps for
capturing Lepidoptera
-
Butterfly Printables -- for shirts, education, etc.
Historical publications on Lepidoptera
- Historical
Recent Moth Illustrations
- Biologia
Centrali-Americana
Videos
- Butterfly
Videos
Butterfly Sites -- For SE U.S. butterflies, check the first four listed
below under North America.
North America
- Lepidoptera.Net (Dave's Lepidoptera Page) - Butterfly photos from Georgia
- Georgia Butterflies by Jim Flynn
-
Jeffrey Pippen's
Butterfly Page
- Dave Powell's butterfly site -- http://vireos.com/butterflies.html
- Bob
Moul's Butterfly Gallery
-
Butterflies of North America -- Butterflies and Moths of North America (BAMONA)
Central/South America
- Neotropical Butterflies
Americas
1.
Butterflies of Americas
Eurasia
- Russian Butterflies
Moth Sites --
Taxon Specific
North America
- Tortricidae
- Sphingidae of
the U.S.
- Legion
of the Night -- Underwing Moths
- Bill
Oehlke's Catocala (Underwing Moths)
- Bill
Oehlke's Sphingidae
World
-
Kirby
Wolfe's Saturniidae (GREAT!)
North America
-
The moth
photographers website (MPG) -- ever growing and perhaps the best site
for moths in the U.S.
- Moths
of North America -- Butterflies and Moths of North America
(BAMONA)
- USGS Moths
of North America
-
Moths
of Canada
-
The
Dominick Moth Collection
-
The
Moths of Southeastern Arizona
Central/South America
- Arctiidae
de Guyane Française -- Tiger Moths
of French Guyana
- Checklist
of Moths of the Area Conservacion de Guanacaste, Costa Rica (Dan Janzen)
Eurasia
- Saturniidae
of the Western Palaearctic
- Saturniidae
(of various countries, mostly in Europe and Asia)
- UK Moths
- Moths of Hong Kong
- Moths of Borneo
Phases of the Moon --
A useful site for those of you interested in studying moths, as it has been
experimentally demonstrated that the full moon often diminishes the number of
moths that will be attracted to lights or bait.
-
Phases
of the Moon
General Lepidoptera Sites
North America
- Florida State Collection of Arthropods -- http://www.fsca-dpi.org/
- Lepidoptera
of Vancouver Island
Neotropics
Caribbean
- Lepidoptera
of the French Antilles
Eurasia
- Moths
and Butterflies of Europe and North Africa - P.Mazzei & D.Reggianti
- Finnish
Lepidoptera (mainly)
- Bugs of Thailand (many nice moth
and a few butterfly images)
Caterpillar Specific Sites -- besides the
caterpillars pictured on this site, the first site listed below
should have many species that are found in the S.E. U.S. The other sites
may not, but you may be able to find ones similar to yours, which will probably
head you in the right direction at least as far as familial identification is
concerned.
-
Caterpillars
of the Eastern Forests
-
Caterpillars
of Australian
-
Caterpillar
Hostplant Database
- Common
Caterpillars of Southeastern Arizona
- Caring
for Arctiid (Tiger Moth) Caterpillars (Woolly Bears)
- The
Truth about Woolly Bears