An aid to the identification of vegetable pests featured in the Wyoming Vegetable & Fruit Growing Guide Identification of pests featured in the Wyoming Vegetable & Fruit Growing Guide. This application is an aid to identify and provide information on management options for most common Wyoming vegetable pests. It is a companion tool to the…
The BeeMD A diagnostic application for use in the field to identify honey bee health problems Honey bees play a crucial role in U.S. agriculture, so keeping them healthy is of utmost importance. The BeeMD was designed to help beekeepers quickly identify honey bee health issues they may encounter, such as pests, diseases, or aberrant bee behavior. The…
Key to the click beetle genera of Canada and USA (Coleoptera: Elateridae) About the key A matrix key designed to allow genus-level identification of adult Elateridae. Species with intermediate or variable character states were coded as ambiguous for that particular character. Here, the key can provide robust identifications even where users were uncertain which character…
MonotomidGen – A matrix-based interactive key to the New World genera of Monotomidae (Coleoptera, Cucujoidea) A matrix-based LucidTM key is presented for the twelve genera of Monotomidae (Coleoptera: Cucujoidea) represented in the New World. Monotomidae are also known as the “minute clubbed beetles”. The list of terminal taxa included with the key provides a current…
Carpophiline-ID: an interactive matrix-based key to the carpophiline sap beetles (Coleoptera, Nitidulidae) of Eastern North America We present Carpophiline-ID, a matrix-based LucidTM key, for the adult stage of the known species of Carpophilinae (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae) of North America, east of the Mississippi River. The list of terminal taxa used in the key represents the most…
What’s that bee? Identification keys to the bees of Uganda/East Africa This series of keys provides tools for identifying the bee families and genera that occur, or are likely to occur, in Uganda and regions adjacent to Uganda’s borders. Each key includes simple descriptors of morphological characters accompanied by high resolution images of the characters…
Insects and spiders in West African Rice The proper identification of insect pests, and their associated natural enemies, is an important component in developing a holistic system for managing rice insect pests. To help national rice research programs in 17 West African countries identify specimens in their rice insect collections, a comprehensive collection program began…
Rice Insect Pests and their Arthropod Parasites and Predators The proper identification of insect pests, and their associated natural enemies, is an important component in developing a holistic system for managing rice insect pests. To assist national rice research programs in the identification of specimens in their rice arthropod collections, the International Rice Research Institute…
Anypodetus dichotomous key Version 1, 2023 Dichotomous, pathway key to species of the Afrotropical Asilidae genus Anypodetus Hermann, 1907 developed in taxonomic revision published in Dikow & Dubus 2023 in African Invertebrates (https://doi.org/10.3897/AfrInvertebr.64.104283). Authors Torsten Dikow and Meliah Dubus
Electronic multi-entry identification key for dacine fruit flies (Diptera, Tephritidae, Dacinae) of importance to the EU The key contains characters to differentiate between adults of 23 fruit fly species of the subfamily Dacinae, that are considered of economic significance to the European Union region and associated regions. This key is composed within the framework of…