Please change your bookmark. Welcome to my home page. Its purpose is to link you to various pages I have created as well as to some other sites that may be of interest to you and me. The purpose of the insect identification site is to provide university students and everybody else with information for identifying the order and family of Florida's common insects. Each family page has one or two pictures of representative insects and a description of diagnostic characters.
Many pages also have links to other web sites for additional information.
This web site has the objective of providing information to identify, understand, and manage insect pests of trees. Our first pages deal primarily with the southern pine beetle, a bark beetle that alternates between being an innocuous scavenger of dead and moribund pines and a killer of healthy trees. Following the terrible wildfires of 1998, we added a page and pdf file for identifying, accessing, and managing insects that threatened fire-damaged pines. In November we added a pest alert for the Asian Longhorned Beetle, a wood borer with the potential to kill healthy trees if it is introduced and becomes established in Florida. These web sites will never be done.