California Scientific Collecting Permits

Biology on a budget

• clip-on macro lens
• ring light
• telescopic lens for smartphones
• portable microscope

Useful sites & tools for ID verification (with a bias towards Californian & North American wildlife).

Arachnids, Insects, and others

• Ant Resources
• BugGuide
• Butterflies and Moths of North America
• Carabidae, Zopheridae, and Tenebrionidae of the North American West Coast
• Collembola
• Field/Photo ID for Flies
• Forbes Lab
• Galerie du Monde des insectes
• Gallformers
• Gall inducer emergence calculator
• Gordon Lab
• Insect Singers
• Joyce Gross Photography
• Lacewing Digital Library
• Manual of Nearctic Diptera Vol. 1
• Manual of Nearctic Diptera Vol. 2
• Manual of Nearctic Diptera Vol. 3
• Moths of North America
• Moth Photographers Group
• Orthopterist's Society
• Pacific Northwest Moths
• Planthoppers of North America
• ScaleNet
• Singing Insects of North America
• Srivastava Lab
• University of Utah - Entomology Specimen Photos
• Urban Entomology
• World Arachnid Catalog
• World Spider Catalog
• World Spider Trait Database

Birds

• All About Birds
• Bird-sounds
• BirdNET
• Macaulay Library
• National Audubon Society
• Nest Watch

Feathers

• iNaturalist - Found Feathers
• All About Feathers
• Feather Atlas
• Featherbase
• University of Puget Sound Wing & Tail Image Collection

Plants

• Calflora
• California Native Plants - Helpful Tools
• Jepson eFlora
• Landscape Plants
• SelecTree
• Utah Museum of Natural History - Botany Vascular Plants
• Wildflower Center

Other

• American Museum of Natural History Library Digital Repository
• Animal Diversity Web
• Biodiversity Heritage Library
• California Fish Website
• California Herps
• Freshwater Gastropods of North America
• Freshwater Mollusk Conservation Society
• PLOS ONE
• ResearchGate
• Skullsite
• University of California Integrated Pest Management
• Utah Museum of Natural History - Vertebrate Zoology Voucher Images

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