Welcome to the home page for laboratory sections of ENY 3005, Principles of Entomology. Its purpose is to link viewers to various pages illustrating and describing morphological characters for identifying the orders and families of common insects.

Links for information on the various orders of insects

• Protura -- proturans
• Collembola -- springtails. [U. of Missouri]
• Diplura -- diplurans [JPEG]
• Archeognatha -- machilids, bristletails, microcoryphians. [NC State U.]
• Thysanura -- silverfish [JPEG] [ Tree of Life]
• Ephemeroptera -- mayflies. [Mayflies of North America] [Ephemeroptera Galactica]
• Odonata -- dragonflies, damselflies
• Orthoptera -- grasshoppers, katydids, crickets
• Phasmida, Phasmatodea -- walkingsticks
• Mantodea -- mantids
• Blattaria, Blattodea -- cockroaches
• Isoptera -- termites. Go to [Featured Creatures]
• Grylloblattodea -- grylloblattids. [Gordon's Grylloblattodea Page]
• Dermaptera -- earwigs [European earwig], [Ringlegged earwig]
• Plecoptera -- stoneflies. [NC State U.] [Florida Plecoptera]
• Embiidina, Embioptera -- webspinners [JPEG]
• Zoraptera -- zorapterans [JPEG]
• Psocoptera -- psocids, booklice, barklice, [JPEG] [JPEG]
• Phthiraptera -- lice. Go to [Featured Creatures]
   - Mallophaga -- chewing lice [JPEG]
   - Anoplura -- sucking lice [JPEG]
• Thysanoptera -- thrips. [gladiolus thrips] [redbanded thrips] [JPEG]
• Hemiptera, suborder Heteroptera -- true bugs
• Hemiptera, suborder Homoptera -- cicadas, planthoppers, aphids, scales
• Megaloptera -- dobsonflies, alderflies
• Raphidioptera -- snakeflies. [ Tree of Life]
• Neuroptera -- lacewings, antlions
• Coleoptera -- beetles
• Strepsiptera -- twistedwinged parasites
• Trichoptera -- caddisflies. [Florida Trichoptera Site]
• Lepidoptera -- butterflies, skippers, moths
• Mecoptera -- scorpionflies
• Diptera -- flies, mosquitoes, lovebugs
• Siphonaptera -- fleas
• Hymenoptera -- sawflies, wasps, bees

Help! Images needed!

Please contact me by mail, telephone, or email with your comments, questions, and suggestions.

John L. Foltz, Forest Entomologist

Dept of Entomology & Nematology

University of Florida

Gainesville, FL 32611-0620

Phone: 352-392-1901 ext 130

Fax: 352-392-0190

Email: Foltz@ufl.edu

Web page: foltz.ifas.ufl.edu/