Pollinator Identification

  

There are a lot of great websites on the Internet about pollinators and pollination.  Here are some of our favorite sites related to observing and identifying pollinators.  Be sure to check out our other categories of web-site links for many other valuable resources.

 

• Bee Basics - An Introduction to our Native Bees

• Pollination Canada (citizen-science pollinator monitoring program, plus general information about pollinators, flowers, pollination)

• Pollinator Observers Manual (Pollination Canada)

• The Great Sunflower Project (citizen-science pollinator monitoring program, plus general information about pollinators, flowers, pollination)

• Identification Guide for the Bumble Bees of Eastern North America (US Forest Service/USDA/Pollinator Partnership)

• Bumble Bee Watch (upload your bumble bee photos and have them identified)

• e-butterfly (upload your butterfly photos and have them identified)

• Monarch Watch - information about observing and rearing monarchs, larval host plants, other butterfly species, and more

• A Guide to Toronto's Pollinators (David Suzuki Foundation)

• Butterflies and Moths of North America (includes information on species, identification, species lists, and more)

• Pennsylvania Native Bee Survey Citizen Scientist Pollinator Monitoring Guide

• Bug Guide (insect identification by photos)

• Discover Life (information about species around the world)

• Pollinator of the Month (U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service)

• Celebrating Pollinators (U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service)

• The Monarch Butterfly in North America

• Butterflies of Canada

• Ontario butterfly atlas

• Techniques for rearing butterflies and moths (Toronto Entomologists' Association)

• Native Buzz  - learn about native solitary bees and wasps, keep track of your own native buzz nest site and see the results of other participant’s nest sites

• Canadian Journal of Arthropod Identification (with keys to identify bees and flies of Eastern Canada)

• Xerces Society Bumblebee Identification Guides

• University of Nebraska-Lincoln Bumble-Boosters Program

• Spring bees of Wisconsin (id bees by photo key or text key)

• Insect Identification

• Eastern Tennessee Wildflower (lots of great photos of beetles, true bugs)

• Texas Bee Watchers

• International Bee Research Association Fact Sheets

• Hinterland's Whos Who - Pollinators

• Caterpillars of Eastern North American Forests (USGS)

• Identification Atlas of the Vespidae (Hymenoptera, Aculeata) of the northeastern Nearctic region (wasp ID)

• Syrphidae of Ontario (not yet complete)

• Syrphidae of Canada

• Key to the Genera of Nearctic Syrphidae

• Syrphid Photo Galleries, Identifications - Site 1

• Syrphid Photo Galleries, Identifications - Site 2

• A set of 5 identification slide shows on the genera of bees of Eastern North America are available for viewing on-line, while the compressed slide shows are also available for downloading

• The U.S. National Entomological Collection (National Museum of Natural History) now has type specimen information for its bee collection available on the internet

• Krombein, et al. (Eds). 1979. Catalog of Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico. Smithsonian Institution,  Washington, D.C.  Volumes 1-4. Available for free download