Alien Empire This is a multimedia Web companion to the fascinating three-week PBS mini-series on insects. This site includes graphics, sound and animation, enhanced video, and activities for children.

Arthropod Proverbs You can catch more flies with honey than vinegar—that’s just one proverb in this collection of “buggy” proverbs organized by type of insect. Includes country of origin.

Bee Buzz for Kids This site offers photos, information, games, and puzzles about bees in a kid-friendly format.

Bug Guide Net This online resource is devoted to North American insects, spiders, and their kin; and offers identification, images, and information.

Butterflies and Moths of North America A searchable database of butterfly and moth records in the United States and Mexico.

Charlotte’s Web: The Story Behind the Movie. Learn about spiders like Charlotte (how they spin their webs, eat, lay eggs, and balloon); meet E. B. White (as a young boy and a grown man); see where White lived and wrote his stories; view White’s barn (which was the model for Zuckerman’s farm); hear White read from the book; and, learn about pigs (like Wilbur) and rats (like Templeton). Also links to lesson plans, scientific links for older students, and two of the film’s trailers.

Coat Hanger Wings Directions for making wings from coat hangers.

Coat Hanger Wings Directions for making fairy/butterfly wings from coat hangers.

Dennis Kunkel Microscopy Education Web Site This excellent, fun site offers great information and spectacular photos of a range of bugs in the context of “Most Wanted” images and “rap sheets” that focus on helpful or harmful impacts of the critter’s life cycle on the human world.

Digital Dragonfly Museum Lots of photographs of all kinds of dragonflies.

Eco Kids The Great Bug Hunt Online game for 7- to 12-year-olds in which players must find the beneficial bugs in a garden.

Gakken’s Photo Encyclopedia: Ants What do ants like to eat? How do they carry their food? Find out here. Learn about ant fighting, ant enemies, the ant body and nest, and lots more. Includes photographs.

Giant Insects This company, called Boxxtoppers, sells rather large insects, such as a giant ant, ladybug, bee, and dragonfly.

Going on a Bug Walk Suggestion for parents/caregivers on taking a bug walk with your child.

Hubbard’s Cupboard: I Like Bugs! Lots of poems, ideas, activities, and insect links for early childhood educators.

Insects! Yahooligans Animals Links to several good insect sites.

International Society of Arachnology Official Web site of the International Society of Arachnology. Click on the Arachno Web and then on the link to the Kids’ Page of resources.

Iowa University’s Tasty Insect Recipes. Recipes for edible insects.

Koday’s Kids Amazing Insects One of the best insect sites onthe Internet for kids with lots of great insect pictures and facts.

Make Your Own Fairy Wings Directions for making fairy wings (adapt for butterfly wings).

Monarch Watch Educational outreach program from the Kansas Biological Survey. Brimming with activities and information about monarchs, this web site has everything from kindergarten class projects to a complete scientific bibliography of monarch literature.

National Zoo Information on the Hissing Cockroach and how to adopt one

Orkin.com Information about insects, printable insect images to color or use in other ways, an online “Name that Bug” game, and some teacher ideas that you might adapt for a program.