Insect and Spider Resources
Many people visit Monticello Park to look for birds, but there are also many arthropods in the park.
Insects and spiders can be difficult to identify. Sometimes they can be identified only to genus, not to species. The best online source for identification information about insects and spiders is BugGuide, operated by Iowa State University. You can use BugGuide to either find a photo that matches what you have seen at Monticello Park, or submit a photo of what you have seen for identification assistance by experts. Insect Identification is another website that provides aid in identifying arthropods.
- BugGuide
- Insect Identification for the casual observer
These websites focus on arachnids:
- Spiders.us for the casual observer
- Spiderz Rule common US spiders
- Pseudoscorpions of the World
These websites aid in identifying butterflies and moths:
- Butterflies and Moths of North America (BAMONA)
- North American Moth Photograpers Group at the Mississippi Entomological Museum
This website is for the identification of flies, as part of the Zurqui All-Diptera Biodiversity Inventory:
These books provide information for identifying and understanding insects and spiders:
- Kaufman Field Guide to Insects of North America
- National Wildlife Federation Field Guide to Insects and Spiders of North America
- A Field Guide to Insects: America North of Mexico
- Insects, Spiders, and Other Terrestrial Arthropods
- National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Insects & Spiders
- Insects: Their Natural History and Diversity: With a Photographic Guide to the Insects of Eastern North America
- Stokes Guide to Observing Insect Lives
- Beetles of North America
- A Guide to Eastern Butterflies
- Butterflies and Moths
- Peterson Field Guide to Moths of Northeastern North America
- Caterpillars of Eastern North America
- Spiders of the Eastern United States: A Photographic Guide
- Spiders and Their Kin
- The Insect World of J. Henri Fabre
- Bugs in the System: Insects and Their Impact on Human Affairs
- Life in the Undergrowth