Places to Go

Places to Go

The following are some places to go (some real and some virtual) to find out more about the amazing world of insects.

Internet Resources

Utah Insect Fun

Make friends with an insect today.

Hogle Zoo
Hogle Zoo has a beautiful butterfly garden. You can visit the website to find out zoo times and admission prices.

Utah Museum of Natural History
Don't miss their invertebrate zoology collection which include around 60,000 arthropods. Visit the museum website for information on museum hours as well as other interesting collections.

Your Backyard
Your own yard can be the best place to observe, study, and appreciate the insects around us.

Utah Lepidopterists' Society
This is a group of people who love butterflies! Find out how to join and when their monthly meetings are.

Public Library
Your local public library has nonfiction insect books, insect videos, and magazines like Ranger Rick that contain interesting insect information. Do you want insect fiction? How about James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl? Insect poetry? Insectlopedia by Douglas Florian has whimsical bug poetry and paintings.For an extensive bibliography of bug information, choose the bibliography link from the menu at the top of the page.

Abbey of Our Lady of the Holy Trinity
Weber County bees make the best honey! You can visit the Abbey of Our Lady of the Holy Trinity in beautiful Huntsville, Utah. The monks at the abbey sell 14 flavors of honey at their gift shop which is open Monday-Saturday from 8:30 to 12:00 and from 1:15 to 5:00. With prior arrangements (801-745-3784), the monks welcome field trips. You can see a special slide show that explains the history of the abbey and its various enterprises.

Children's Museum of Utah
Interested in watching bees at work? The Children's Museum of Utah has an enclosed hive where you can view bee activity.

Virtual Insectory
The Virtual Insectary provides not only images of some common insects, but also includes information on the foods they eat and the habitats where they can be found. As you visit The Virtual Insectary, take time to follow the links and learn how insects are part of our ecosystem.

Insect Zoo
The Insect Zoo is located in the Entomology Department at Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa. Check the webcam to see what crawling creatures is currently being featured.

Insecta Inspecta World
Insects, they're everywhere. They inhabit all the continents, roam your backyard, and are even in the spaces between the walls of your home. Join the Insecta Inspecta team and enter the amazing world of insects!

Iowa State University Entomology Image Gallery
Insects and plant disease pictures, divided into the categories: lice; beetles; butterflies, moths, and caterpillars; cicadas and leafhoppers; flies and mosquitoes; grasshoppers and crickets; true bugs; ticks; plants; and plant diseases.

Smithsonian O. Orkin Insect Zoo
Live spiders, centipedes, millipedes, and insects reside year-round in the O. Orkin Insect Zoo. Key to their success are high reproductive rates, short lifetimes, specialized ways of catching prey, raising their young, and protecting themselves. Learn how these fascinating animals are designed for survival and where they fit into the natural world.

Yucky Roach World
Enter the world of Ralph Roach and get the inside story on what life is like for a cockroach.

The Carl Hayden Bee Research Center
This site, sponsored by the United States Department of Agriculture, has some bee-yootiful photos and a lot of information on bees.

Furman University Insect Collection
Visit the Biology Department at Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina, to see their collection of moth and butterfly images. Although most of the butterflies in the collection are Lepidoptera, there are other species primarily from the southeastern United States.

Hotlists provide internet sites to visit to find out more about specific topics--in this case, bugs!

Online activities are a listing of internet sites with fun, interesting, and educational tasks attached to each one.

Utah educators, learn how to make hotlists and online activites yourself! UEN can show you how with its new WWW Activities Toolkit. Visit the tutorial to learn the basics.