Database of verified butterfly and moth records in the United States and Mexico. Includes distribution maps, photographs, species accounts, and species checklists for each county in the U.S. and each state in Mexico.
Provides biodiversity knowledge about all known species, including their taxonomy, geographic distribution, collections, genetics, evolutionary history, morphology, behavior, ecological relationships, and importance for human well being.
Collection of information about biodiversity compiled collaboratively by hundreds of expert and amateur contributors. Contains pictures, text, and other information for species living or extinct and the hierarchy of life, phylogeny and evolution.
Information on cicadas, leafhoppers, planthoppers, spittlebugs, and treehoppers, including a searchable database for retrieving literature on Auchenorrhyncha.
On April 2, 1647, the German naturalist and scientific illustrator Maria Sibylla Merian was born. Even though she is not very well known for her achievements, she made significant contributions to entomology through the observation and documentation of the metamorphosis of the butterfly.