InsectImages: Entomology images to support education

Tuesday, December 14, 2010: 7:45 AM

Golden West (Town and Country Hotel and Convention Center)

G Keith Douce , Center for Invasive Species and Ecosystem Health, University of Georgia, Tifton, GA

D. J. Moorhead , Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources, University of Georgia, Center for Invasive Species and Ecosystem Health, Tifton, GA

C. T. Bargeron , Center for Invasive Species and Ecosystem Health, University of Georgia, Tifton, GA

Joseph LaForest , Southern IPM Center, University of Georgia, Tifton, GA

InsectImages www.InsectImages.org provides archival, access and retrieval of high quality images about entomology and insects that are available for no-cost educational uses. It is one of the four sites that make up BugwoodImages Database System (http://images.Bugwood.org) served by The Center for Invasive Species & Ecosystem Health (www.bugwood.org). InsectImages is web-accessible and provides users with access to over 38,000 images taken by 900 photographers on 6,000 subjects. It is driven by the Bugwood taxonomic database system and is fully-searchable. Individual photographers retain all commercial rights to images included in the archive. Every image use requires proper citation. In 2009, InsectImages received 21 million hits from 750,000 unique users.

doi: 10.1603/ICE.2016.49420

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