BugGuide
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BugGuide (or BugGuide.net) is a website and online community of naturalists, both amateur and professional, who share observations of arthropods such as insects, spiders, and other related creatures. The website consists of informational guide pages and many thousands of photographs of arthropods from the United States and Canada which are used for identification and research. The non-commercial site is hosted by the Iowa State University Department of Entomology. BugGuide was conceived by photographer Troy Bartlett in 2003 and since 2006 has been maintained by John VanDyk, an adjunct assistan
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Vinony's link graph records 38,409 inbound references to BugGuide, and connects out to North America, insect and Araneae.
It sits within the topics Arthropods and humans, Biology websites and Citizen science.
Vinony links it to 15 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Website.name
- BugGuide
- Website.logo
- File:Logo_for_bugguide.net.gif
- Website.commercial
- No
- Website.type
- Entomology, Citizen science
- Website.language
- English
- Website.registration
- not required, except to comment and post
- Website.owner
- Iowa State University
- Website.founder
- Troy Bartlett
- Website.current_status
- Online
- Website.area_served
- North America
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- online database
- Field of work
- entomology
- Country
- United States
- Owned by
- Iowa State University
- Official website
- bugguide.net
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- inception
- 2003-01-01
- language of work or name
- English language
- terms of service URL
- bugguide.net/termsofuse
- privacy policy URL
- bugguide.net/termsofuse#privacy
- sitemap URL
- bugguide.net/sitemap
- contact page URL
- bugguide.net/user/view/1
Sources (1)
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Encyclopedic overview
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- External links
BugGuide (or BugGuide.net) is a website and online community of naturalists, both amateur and professional, who share observations of arthropods such as insects, spiders, and other related creatures. The website consists of informational guide pages and many thousands of photographs of arthropods from the United States and Canada which are used for identification and research. The non-commercial site is hosted by the Iowa State University Department of Entomology. BugGuide was conceived by photographer Troy Bartlett in 2003 and since 2006 has been maintained by John VanDyk, an adjunct assistant professor of entomology and a senior systems analyst at Iowa State University. The website has been recognized for helping change the public perception of insects.
According to gardening author Margaret Roach, "The site is where naturalists of all levels share photos of 'insects, spiders and their kin' to foster enthusiasm and expand the knowledge base about these often-overlooked (and as BugGuide points out, 'oft-maligned') creatures."
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “BugGuide” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.