General Information On Arabian Insects & Arachnids

• http://www.arabianwildlife.com/archive/vol3.2/buttr.htm
  article on some common species of Arabian butterflies
• http://www.arabianwildlife.com/nature/insect/index.html
  information on insects and arachnids of the Arabian Peninsula
• http://www.arabianwildlife.com/current/spiders.html
  information on Arabian spiders, including jumping spiders and black widow spiders
• http://www.arabianwildlife.com/archive/vol2.3/spider.htm
  an article on the life and times of an Arabian spider

General Information On Insects

• http://www.earthlife.net/insects/six.html
  excellent, comprehensive website on insects and arachnids, including an extensive glossary of insect terminology in language that is easy to understand
• http://www.backyardnature.net/2arthrop.htm
  interesting material on arthropods including spiders, centipedes and millipedes – insects are featured in a separate section of the website (see next listing)
• http://www.backyardnature.net/2insect.htm
  large section of a useful natural history website for children, including topics such as life cycles, metamorphosis and insect anatomy
• http://www.enhg.org/trib/V08N2/TribulusV08N2p09-15.pdf
  an illustrated checklist of damselflies and dragonflies found in the UAE
• http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~wjh/jumping/
  a series of web pages showing how a grasshopper jumps; includes animated drawings
• http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/printable/praying-mantis.html
  printable fact sheet from National Geographic
• http://phasmid-study-group.org/content/phasmid-faqs
  a website full of information about stick insects and leaf insects (phasmids)
• http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/information/Lepidoptera.html
  information on butterflies and moths, including images
• http://butterflywebsite.com/resource/index.cfm
  the Butterfly Website lists numerous internet resources dealing with butterflies and moths
• http://www.zin.ru/Animalia/Coleoptera/eng/all_fama.htm
  part of an online atlas of beetles, this page contains superb illustrations of 189 families of beetles, with links to further illustrations
• http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/wildfacts/factfiles/498.shtml
  dung beetle fact sheet

General Information On Arachnids

• http://www.tooter4kids.com/Spiders/facts.htm
  facts about spiders
• http://www.arachnology.org/Arachnology/Pages/Latrodectus.html
  long list of weblinks for Latrodectus spp. black widow spiders
• http://www.xs4all.nl/~ednieuw/australian/wolfspiders/Wolfspiders.html
  information about wolf spiders with numerous photographs
• http://www.ub.ntnu.no/scorpion-files/scorpion_anatomy.jpg
  excellent page on the anatomy of a scorpion, with labelled images
• http://www.ub.ntnu.no/scorpion-files/faq.php
  frequently asked questions about scorpions; part of a website with extensive information about scorpions