Images of Insects and their Relatives

Colorado Hairstreak, the official State Insect of Colorado

 The Gillette Entomology Club at Colorado State University offers a large collection of insect slides for sale, including comprehensive lists of insects that are pests for particular commodities. Here are some sample photographs (you may not reproduce or distribute these):

An excellent resource for insect images is an ftp site at the Smithsonian Institution at photo1.si.edu (look in /images/gif89a/science-nature). Available photos of insects include: Iowa State University has an Entomology Image Gallery, including: Electron Micrographs of Insects, made available by Dr. Greg Paulson.
A good image of a fifth instar gypsy moth larva is at the Gypsy Moth WWW site, West Virginia.
Butterfly World offers several butterfly pictures.
The University of Delaware has set up an On-line Insect Database with color photos and descriptions of insect orders.
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has Insect Drawings of species within a number of insect orders.
InBio (Costa Rica) has drawings included with their keys for Lamellicorn Beetles.
The Nagoshi Drosophila Lab (U. Iowa) has images of mutant fly heads.
Basic Atlas of the Drosophila Brain.
On the more bizarre side, WAXWeb is a fantasy about the discovery of television among the bees.
The CSU Urban IPM Program offers insect images in a number of formats, including CD-ROM, videotapes, slide sets, and publications.
Good images of Insects at Virginia Tech.
University of Nebraska-Lincoln has a gallery of Arthropod Classics
Excellent images of carabids from Colby College