Insects and bugs and other yucky stuff.
From Wikipedia:
- 2008 Class – Entomology, Dr. John A. Jackman Download Odonata Presentation PDF file
- 2011 Advanced Training – “Change – The Only Constant” – by Clint Walker, Walker Honey Farm – All about bees and making honey.
- A&M main insects page
- A&M Insect Answers page
- A&M Image Gallery
- A&M Texas Insects page
- A&M Insect Fieldguide page
- A&M AgriLife Center for Urban and Structural Entomology
- Texas Entomology, Beetles and many other photos, by Mike Quinn, Austin
- Visit “Bugguide.net for bug identification and pictures.
- NC State’s General Entomology Site. See Spot ID for great ID pictures.
- fireants.tamu.edu
- Book “A Dazzle of Dragonflies”
- Book “Dragonflies and Dameselflies of Texas and the South-Central”
- Book “Dragonflies through Binoculars”
- Book “Texas Bug book, the good, the bad and the ugly” on Amazon.
- Book “Field Guide to Texas Insects” by Jackman and Drees, on Amazon.
- Giant Spider Web in East Texas State Park
- Stephenville Extension Service dragonfly.org web site
- www.odonatacentral.org
- University of Puget Sound Slater Museum
- And suggested by a member: Ladybugs Invading Homes
- The metaphorphic life cycle of a Monarch Butterfly
- Decomposers: the Earth’s Recyclers article by Master Naturalist and Master Gardener Don Johnson
- Who’s Singing In My Backyard? about sounds of insects, also by Don Johnson
Learn About Texas Insects
This is one of the Urban Wildlife Factsheets publications by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Press.
Its a learning and activity book for children, but loaded with lots of great information and pictures – for the child in all of us.
Download the Urban Wildlife Factsheet PDF file
A Forage List for Bees
What do bees like best? Check out this list.
Download Forage list for Bees PDF file
From Shawn Walton’s Weekly blog / column in the Rockdale and Cameron Newspapers:
- 06.15.09_Butterflies
- 07.06.09_Dragonflies
- 10.28.09_Leafcutter Ants
- 03.24.10_Monarch Butterfly
- 04.21.10_Fireflies
- 05.05.10_Pill Bugs
- 05.12.10_Ant Lion
- 05.19.10_June Bugs
- 05.26.10_Saltmarsh Caterpiller
- 06.23.10_Pollinators
- 08.11.10_Cicada Killers
- 08.19.10_Daddylonglegs
- 09.30.10_Grasshoppers
- 03.10.11_Monarch Spring Migration
- 06.02.11_Hornets and Wasps


