Insects, Arachnids & Worms

This is the place to find your favorite animal or learn about a new one. Look here for butterflies, ants, spiders, and more.

Resources in this category:

The Adventures of Herman
http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/worms/

Learn all about worms at this site! Find out where worms come from and what worms like to eat!

Children's Butterfly Site
http://www.nides.bc.ca/Assignments/Insects/Butterflyfaq.htm

Learn all about butterflies! This site will tell you about the life cyle of the butterfly and answer lots of questions about this remarkable insect. You can also find a gallery of photographs of butterflies as well as lots of links.

Gakken's Photo Encyclopedia of Ants
http://ant.edb.miyakyo-u.ac.jp/INTRODUCTION/Gakken79E/Page_0...

This site has lots of photographs and funny illustrations. You can learn many facts about ants . You can even find out about catching and keeping ants. Check this site for ideas for science experiments, too.

Insect Information Sheets
http://insected.arl.arizona.edu/info.htm

Facts and data about many different bugs and insects, including spiders, flies, ants, mosquitoes, grasshoppers, ladybugs, and more.

Insecta
http://www.insecta.com/insecta/index.shtml

"Cool photographs and information on many different insects taken from the Spencer Entomology Museum."

Insects on the Web
http://www.insects.org/

Learn all about insects. This site shows the beautiful side of bugs that we don't always get to see.

Katerpillars & Mystery Bugs
http://www.uky.edu/Ag/Entomology/ythfacts/entyouth.htm

Find out about all kinds of bugs! There's information about common insects as well as the more unusual. Lots of links for both kids and teachers.

Kid's Corner Fun Butterfly Activities
http://www.naba.org/chapters/nabasl/kids.htm

Do you like butterflies? Well if you do this site's for you! It has butterfly quotations, butterfly-related books, riddles, jokes, word searches, and much, much more.

MicroAngela's Electron Microscope Image Gallery
http://www.pbrc.hawaii.edu/microangela/

This site has pictures of insects taken through a powerful microscope. There are also funny pictures, like a picture of an insect playing the guitar!

Minax Tarantulas
http://hem.spray.se/minax/index/welcome_e.html

"Get facts on the biology and care of these huge spiders, as well as lots of photos and info on different species."

Mystery of the Monarchs
http://www.earthsky.org/teachers/articles.php?id=7

Are you interested in butterflies? Read about the Monarch butterfly, which has the farthest migratory journey of any insect.

North American Butterfly Association: Kids' Corner
http://www.naba.org/chapters/nabasl/kids.htm

Provides children's materials about butterflies. Includes quotations, games, puzzles, projects, and recommended books.

PestWorld for Kids
http://www.pestworldforkids.org/

Do you have pests in your house? Find out about all sorts of pests: ants, mice, termites, ticks, cockroaches, mosquitoes, lice, and many more. Play games and send "pestcards" to your friends!

Tarantulas
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/features/97/tarantulas/

"Explore the tarantula's secret realm, from underground burrows to tree branches. Get a close look at‹and inside‹these fascinating, diverse spiders."

Tarantulas (DesertUSA)
http://www.desertusa.com/july96/du_taran.html

Curious about tarantulas? This site tells where tarantulas live, what they like to eat, and how male and female tarantulas mate.

Westside Spidermania!
http://polk.k12.ga.us/northside/spidermania.html

Learn all about spiders! This site has pictures and information on the Brown Recluse, the Black Widow, the Wolf Spider, the Red Spotted Crab, the Tarantula, the Trap Door Spider, and the Spitting Spider.

Worms
http://www.thinkingfountain.org/w/worms/worms/worms.html

Learn about worms with a first grade class in Minnesota. These kids tell us all about worms and share with us all that they learned by showing us pictures they drew and giving us a recipe to make chocolate covered worms. Yuck!

The Yuckiest Site on the Internet
http://yucky.discovery.com/flash/

This fun site has everything you need or want to know about worms and cockroaches. That's right -- yucky stuff! Did you know that worms are recyclers? Find out about worm bins. Learn how to catch and keep cockroaches as pets. This is all really fun and yucky stuff.

Zoom Butterfly: All About Butterflies
http://www.EnchantedLearning.com/subjects/butterfly/

Learn all about butterflies, through their life cycles, anatomy, senses, and many other traits. Information sheets, classroom activities, ann an illustrated butterfly dictionary make learning easy and fun.