INSECT WEB RESOURCES

ANATOMY & DEVELOPMENT

Anatomical Atlas of Flies (interactive website)
Animation of a cicada’s molt

ENTOMOPHAGY

David Gracer eating bugs on the Colbert Report
Eating a giant beetle larvae in the wild (video clip from “Man vs. Wild”)

BIOMECHANICS & FLIGHT

Trap-jaw ant data videos (from the Sheila Patek Lab)
Stonefly and Mayfly larvae gill flapping data videos 


SOCIAL INSECTS

AntWeb (ants of the world in high res)  
Giant cast of a leafcutter ant nest (video)
Wasp Face Recognition (Lab of Elizabeth Tibett)

The Waggle Dance! An overview
More Waggle Dance (data video) 
Honeybee navigation continued….
The marvels of honeybee anatomy
Silence of the Bees (PBS video)  


INSECT ARCHITECTURE

Insect Architecture  (video from New Scientist)
Roberto the Insect Architect (charming kids story)
Insect Architecture (Rennie & Wood, 1869)

 

ART & CULTURE

Vladmaster - Art of the Viewmaster brings you cockroaches
Christopher Marley (video)
Catherine Chalmers (artist's site)
Alex Wild and his ant & insect photography

The Romance of Ants graphic novel
Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo (documentary)
Streambeat - tying "flies" mayfly mimicking (Cabinet magazine)
The Insect Issue! - Cabinet Magazine
The Seven Dwarves versus malarial mosquitoes! (video)    
Jiminy Cricket’s “I ain’t no fool” (video) 


SENSORIAL

Insect Ears and Hearing Aids  video1 & video2  (from the  Ron Hoy Lab)


NATURAL HISTORY

The Schmidt Pain Index
Botfly pulled out of one’s back! (video)
Insect photographer Mark Moffett andhis botfly (video)


EVOLUTION & ECOLOGY

Jumping Spider Versus Moth (he original scientific paper)
...and the videos documenting the mimicry
Disease drives changes of mating behavior among butterflies (NPR radio)
Billion Bug Super Highway (NPR video)
Invasive Species (PBS Evolution video)
“Killer Aliens”Animal Planet trailer (video)






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