Useful Websites

Biological Control: A Guide to Natural Enemies of North America
http://www.nysaes.cornell.edu/ent/biocontrol/

This site, Biological Control: A Guide to Natural Enemies of North America provides photographs and descriptions of over 100 biological control (or biocontrol) agents of insect, disease, and weed pests in North America. It is also a tutorial on the concept and practice of biological control and integrated pest management (IPM). Excellent photos and lifecycle descriptions supplemented with diagrams.

Insect Parasitic Nematodes
http://www.oardc.ohio-state.edu/nematodes/

This site has much useful information about the use of insect parasitic nematodes: the biology and ecology of nematodes, how to use nematodes, a list of suppliers, and more! An extremely useful section provides full citation for research papers according to author, title, or abstract. Research papers can also be searched for according to Order and Family of target insect. To get to this section, click on: Search Publications => Keyword Search Page (just underneath the “author, title, abstract” search engine) => Insects. Then you may choose the Order and Family of your choice.

ATTRA’s Phenology Resource List
http://attra.ncat.org/attra-pub/phenology.html

This website has descriptions of dozens of websites that contain information about plant phenology. Some sites are state or region-specific; other sites have information about specific groups of plants and when they flower at a particular location.

SELECTV (selective) D-base on pesticide effects on non-target arthropods
http://www.ent3.orst.edu/Phosure/database/selctv/selctv.htm

The SELCTV (pronounced as “selective”) database was created in 1986/87 by Karen M. Theiling, then a research student working towards a Master’s thesis, under the supervision of Professor Brian Croft in the Department of Entomology at Oregon State University, Corvallis. The database represents a relatively comprehensive compilation of the worldwide published literature describing pesticide effects on non-target arthropods (Theiling & Croft, 1988) during the period from 1921 to 1985, with a small number of entries from publications dated between 1986 and 1994. The principal database table contains approximately 12,500 data records, 99.7% of which originate from the pre-1986 literature. Each record in the principal table represents one screening of a pesticide on one natural enemy taxon under conditions described in the source publication.