Cheadle Center for Biodiversity and Ecological Restoration

This guide was developed at UC Santa Barbara as a general guide for how to identify common insects to order. It was developed as a training guide for students that are unfamiliar with entomology or technical terminology, and is based on insects and other arthropods found near UC Santa Barbara in California. This key was developed as part of the Institute of Museum Library Services Grant (award #MA-30-16-0387-16) to curate and digitize the Adrian Wenner Historic Insect Collection at University of California, Santa Barbara.