- Diptera
- Phorid flies
 These
are the research subjects of Dr. Brian Brown (email),
who is especially interested in the parasitic species known
as "ant-decapitating and bee-killing flies." Learn
more...
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- Los
Angeles Spider Survey
- The Entomology
Section of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
needs your help. Over the next few years, we are conducting
an urban spider survey to understand the different kinds
found in this area, and we want to recruit the citizens of
Los Angeles to be our explorers and collectors. The final
survey, along with scientific studies and descriptions that
result from the survey, will be posted on the museum's web
site. Learn
more...
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Diptera of Central America and Tropical
Mexico
- This is a project undertaken by many
members of the dipterological community to document the Diptera
(true flies) found from tropical Mexico to the Panamanian
border. We will product a book, tentatively entitled “Manual
of Central American Diptera” that will
allow identification of all groups of flies to the genus level.
The web pages that follow will allow updating the information in
the book by providing new records, references to newly published
keys, links to other Diptera sites, and lots of images that we
could not put in the book. Come here to extend your knowledge of
tropical Diptera. Learn more...
The
Costa Rican Malaise trap network
Over the last several years Dr. Paul Hanson of the
University of Costa Rica has operated a series of Malaise
traps, mostly for the Hymenoptera of Costa Rica project.
Many other entomologists have used these samples, however,
so Paul provided an overview anddescription of some of the
sites. Here we have the text
of this document, produced in 1992. In the future, we will
produce an updated version with full accounts and
coordinates for all sites, as well as a list of some of the
newer and ongoing collecting localities.
- Crisis in Neotropical Dipterology
- Here you will
find the underlying data for Brown's study of Malaise trap
samples.
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