Resources: The following resources have been used in identifying the insects on this website.
The Ants of Northern Australia - A Guide to the Monsoonal Fauna
Andersen, Alan, N.
CSIRO Publishing, 2000
Australian Cicadas
Moulds, M.S.
New South Wales University Press, 1990
Australian Ants - Their Biology and Identification
Monographs on Invertebrate Taxonomy Volume 3
Shattuck, S.O.
CSIRO Publishing, 1999
Australian Beetles
John F. Lawrence and E.B. Britton
Melbourne University Press, 1994
Australian Dragonflies, The
Watson, J.A.L., Theischinger, G., Abbey, H.M.
CSIRO Division of Entomology, 1991
Australian Moths Online
CSIRO Entomology
http://www.ento.csiro.au/gallery/moths/index.php
Australian National Insect Collection, The
Australian Tropical Butterflies
Valentine, Peter
Photography: Clifford & Dawn Frith
Tropical Australian Graphics, 1988
Australian Water Bugs - Their Biology and Identification
Nils M. Andersen & Tom A. Weir
CSIRO, Division of Entomology
Apollo Books Aps. 2004
Beetles of the World
J.F. Lawrence, A.M. Hastings, M.J. Dallwitz, T.A. Paine and E.J. Zurcher
CDROM
CSIRO Publishing
Butterflies of Australia
Braby, Michael F.
CSIRO Publishing, 2 volumes, 2000
Butterflies of the Townsville Area - Peter Valentine
http://www.tesag.jcu.edu.au/staff/psv/butterflyTSV.html
Checklist of the Lepidoptera of Australia
Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera Volume 4
Editors: Nielson, E.S., Edwards, E.D., Rangsi, T.V.
CSIRO Division of Entomology, 1996
Click Beetles - Genera of the Australian Elateridae (Coleoptera)
Monographs on Invertebrate Taxonomy Vol. 2
Calder, Andrew A.
CSIRO Division of Entomology, (year?)
Common Dung Beetles in Pastures of South-eastern Australia
Tyndale-Biscoe, Marina
CSIRO Division of Entomology, 1990
CSIRO's Double Helix Science Club
Fruit Fly Identifier sheet.
Dictionary of Entomology, A
G. Gordh and D.H. Headrick
CABI Publishing, 2001
Find-a-spider Guide, The
University of Southern Queensland
Dr. Ron Atkinson
http://www.usq.edu.au/spider/index.htm
Grasshopper Country - The Abundant Orthopteroid Insects of Australia
Rentz, David
University of NSW Press, 1996
Guide to Australian Moths, A
Paul Zborowski and Ted Edwards
CSIRO Publishing, 2007
Guide to Australian Spiders, A
Clyne, Densey
Thomas Nelson (Australia) Limited, 2nd Edition 1977
Heliothine Moths of Australia
Matthews, Marcus
Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera Volume 7
CSIRO Publishing, 1999
Insects of Australia
CSIRO, Division of Entomology
1137pp (2 volumes), Melbourne University Press, 2nd Edition 1999.
Moths of Australia
Ian F.B. Common
Melbourne University Press, 1990
Moth Larvae of Australia
Don Herbison-Evans
http://www.usyd.edu.au/macleay/larvae/moths.html
Spiders of Australia - Interactive Identification to Subfamily
Raven, R.J., Baehr, B.C., Harvey, M.S.
ABRS Identification Series CD-ROM
Tettigoniinae, The
A Monograph of the Tettigoniidae of Australia - Volume 1
Rentz, D.C.F.
CSIRO Publishing, 1985
Tettigoniidae of Australia - Volume 3
The Listroscelidinae, Tympanophorinae, Meconematinae and Microtettigoniinae
Rentz, D.C.F.
CSIRO Publishing, 2001
The Moths of Hong Kong
The Moths of Hong Kong Home Page
Wildlife of Tropical North Queensland
Editors: Michael Ryan, Chris Burwell
Queensland Museum publication, 2000