For more advanced users, the app also functions as an digital field guide. Browse through over species, sorting by location, family and habitat. Quickly access information out in the field, and leave the heavy reference books behind. A hub for information about peacock spiders, mostly featuring the work of Jurgen Otto.
Also includes info by others who contribute to the knowledge of peacock spiders. A place where you can see what the various species look like, how they behave, where they live and what else might be interesting about them. Australian Butterfly Conservation. Australian Caterpillars and their Butterflies and Moths:.
Links to descriptions of biology, behaviour, distribution, life histories, and images of 3, named and described Australian Lepidoptera species. Its purpose is to:. Interactive Australian Dragonfly Identification Key. An interactive identification key guide to the dragonflies and damselflies odonata of Australia. This key allows you to narrow down the list of possible species. Identifly is a guidebook app for identifying dragonflies and damselflies of the Australian Top End.
The Identifly app allows you to identify species of dragonflies and damselflies by colour. The app includes photos and descriptions of distinguishing features to help you tell species apart. Aussie Bee website promotes the preservation and enjoyment of Australian native bees. European wasp identification guide.
Learn the differences between the European wasp, Vespula germanica, and other species including the common and widespread yellow paper wasp, Polistes dominulus.
The Anatomical Atlas of Flies is an interactive and comparative morphology for the insect order Diptera. It compares the morphology of the four major groups: the Calyptrate, the Acalyptrate, the Lower Brachycera and the Lower Diptera.
Anatomical Atlas of Drosophila melanogaster. This interactive morphology clarifies structures found in this particular group of flies. It is designed to provide a bridge between communities who study the taxonomy and systematics of the group, and those who study the genetics and development of this model organism and its close relatives. This is a scientific key to assist trained entomologists to identify fruitflies of economic importance to Australian agriculture. Fruit Fly Identification Australia is a hub of information to assist in the accurate identification of fruit fly species that occur within Australia and species that are not present within Australia but pose the most significant threat to horticultural industries.
This site has been developed for diagnosticians and includes species pages with high resolution images, information on molecular diagnostic tools, an online Lucid key to 65 species of Dacine flies, a rotatable 3D fruit fly to assist in identifying key morphology features and a downloadable The Australian Handbook for the Identification of Fruit Flies.
Contributions come from ant experts together with discussions provided by experts and amatuers. In addition, data is collated from numerous global databases and integrated with individual taxon pages. It is community driven and open to contribution from anyone with specimen records, natural history comments, or images. Australasian Region Species List. The Waterbug app helps you identify waterbugs from South-eastern Australia. Use the key to answer questions that help you identify your waterbug, or whizz through speedbug and see if you recognize it.
The app also has a list function that acts as an index if you already know some waterbugs and just want more info on them, and a gallery if you are simply interested in browsing pictures that demonstrate the diversity of waterbugs. Identification and Ecology of Australian Freshwater Invertebrates. This interactive guide to the Identification and Ecology of Australian Freshwater Invertebrates is designed to provide ecological and taxonomic information to enable community groups, students and scientists to readily identify inland aquatic invertebrates.
The content focuses on invertebrates from fresh and inland saline surface waters of mainland Australia and Tasmania, in particular taxa utilised in routine biomonitoring. General information is given for each of the major aquatic invertebrate groups. This is a Facebook group dedicated to sharing photos and information regarding Gastropods. I actually found it incredibly fun and intriguing. The images in this book are a great way to crystallise all of the information which was being provided to you throughout.
As each order and suborder was provided, a number of gorgeous pictures were placed next to them. Many of which I either recognised, or vaguely recognised from similar species. I thought the pictures were completely beautiful. Although I am a total bug geek. So that might have something to do with my happy feelings about the pretty pictures.
Alongside the information about each order and suborder, this book provides information about where you are most likely to find each group. These extra pieces of information are so helpful with identifying a specimen down to order. Although my favourite part about this book was the breakdown of each order, I also loved that the start of this book talked about trapping, catching and preservation.
I remember the vast majority of this from my Undergrad days, but it was nice to have a refresher. Again, accompanied by pictures to help you view what was being discussed. With more photographs, species and up-to-date information, it will enable you to differentiate between a dragonfly and a damselfly or a cricket and a grasshopper. You'll find cockroaches, termites, praying mantises, beetles, cicadas, moths, butterflies, ants, bees and many more. More than colour photographs show the insects in their natural habitats, while more than 50 line drawings clearly illustrate the differences where identification is tricky.
Paul Zborowski is an entomologist and photographer based in Canberra. He has studied and photographed insect behaviour around the world and now concentrates on maintaining a macro photo collection. Paul has revised this edition and continued the legacy of his esteemed friend and colleague, Ross Storey. Ross Storey spent most of his professional life studying, collecting and curating insects for the University of Queensland and the Queensland Department of Primary Industries.
He described many new species and wrote scientific papers, especially on native dung beetles, on which he is a recognised world authority. Before his death in , he worked as a taxonomist and curator of the QDPI's Mareeba insect collection, one of Australia's premier collections of tropical insects.
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