Favorite Sites
You may enjoy a visit to these other terrific web habitats...
More links to come...
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SaveNature.Org (The Center for Ecosystem Survival), www.savenature.org; This award-winning conservation program has raised $3.5 million and saved millions of acres of rainforest and marine ecosystems around the world. We partner with over 140 institutions and schools in all 50 states in the US and Canada. Go here to link to the Insect Discovery Lab and other conservation projects. Make a donation and keep the Center going! Home of the Conservation Parking Meter™ too! Go to the teacher's resources page for great activities. |
- BugBios, www.insects.org; "shameless promotion of insect appreciation"
- Nomina Website of Scientific Names, www.nearctica.com/nomina/nomina.htm; Entomological research information
- UC Berkeley's Understanding Evolution, www.evolution.berkeley.edu
- Acoustic Ecology, www.acousticecology.org/recordings.html; The Acoustic Ecology Institute works to increase personal and social awareness of our sound environment, through education programs in schools, regional events, and its internationally recognized website, which is a comprehensive clearinghouse for information on sound-related environmental issues and scientific research.
- The Insect Discovery Lab is the largest and most well respected hands-on outreach program on insects and biodiversity conservation in Northern California conducting over 800 programs annually. We take live insects out to schools in the San Francisco Bay area. The Insect Discovery Lab is a program of awarding winning SaveNature.Org.
See the latest story on the Center on ABC News on our young Eco-Hero Award winner on ABC News (Oct.6, 2006).
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Discover caterpillars and butterflies and moths with images and text of species in Costa Rica in the Guancaste Conservation Area database, a fantastic model project by Dan Janzen and Winnie Hallwachs http://janzen.sas.upenn.edu/
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Discover Life: bees- an image based interactive encyclopedia about the identification, natural history and distribution of bees and other insects. http://www.discoverlife.org/mp/20q?search=Apoidea
- The Tree of Life Project has images and text, for every species and for each group of organisms, living or extinct. TOL web pages follow phylogenetic branching patterns between groups of organisms, so visitors can browse the hierarchy of life and learn about phylogeny and evolution as well as the characteristics of individual groups. http://www.tolweb.org/Pterygota/8210
- Xerces Society Pollinator Conservation tips: http://www.xerces.org/Pollinator_Insect_Conservation/Xerces_PNW_plants_fact_sheet.pdf
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