AMES, Iowa – A farmer notices an unfamiliar insect on a leaf. Is this a pollinator? Or a pest? Good news at harvest time? Or bad? Need to be controlled? Or not? That farmer can snap a picture, use a ...

A farmer notices an unfamiliar insect on a leaf. Is this a pollinator? Or a pest? Good news at harvest time? Or bad? Need to ...

Provides dichotomous key and illustrations that provide identification of common arthropods to the order/class level. by Donald J. Borror and Richard E. White. Houghton Mifflin, 1998. Details insect ...

Keys to the Living and Extinct Families of Insects, and to the Living Families of Other Terrestrial Arthropods. By Prof. Charles T. Brues, Prof. A. L. Melander and Prof. Frank M. Carpenter. (Bulletin ...

This illustration shows how the "Pest-ID" tool developed by Iowa State researchers can help farmers identify and manage pests of all kinds. AMES, Iowa - A 2016 research paper explored a vision for ...

KEY TO THE FAMILIES OF NORTH AMERICAN INSECTS AN INTRODUCTION TO THE CLASSIFICATION OF INSECTS BY CHARLES T BRUES AND AL MELANDER ...

A clear insect image to InsectID@uwyo.edu can save a lot of time. To submit a plant, plant disease, or insect sample for identification or diagnosis please select the appropriate form below. Send the ...

Backyard Farmer will give some insect identification tips and more This week on Backyard Farmer we get some insect identification tips and hear about a young boy’s passion for gardening. In addition ...

The terms "bug" and "insect" are commonly used interchangeably in everyday language, yet scientifically, they refer to distinct categories of creatures. Insects belong to the vast class Insecta, ...

The facility, now located at the Northern Botanical Garden in Río Piedras, houses more than 52,000 specimens of high ...

Using weather radar data, researchers estimated that roughly 100 trillion insects are flying above the United States on a ...