Links
Other
Botany
- Pronunciation of Biological Latin
http://www.saltspring.com/capewest/pron.htm - Pronunciation Guide, Fine Gardening
http://www.taunton.com/finegardening/pguide/pronunciation-guide-to-botanical-latin.aspx (sound available - requires Flash) - Botanary, the Botanical Dictionary,at Dave's Garden
http://davesgarden.com/guides/botanary/ - Garden Web's Glossary of Botanical Terms
http://glossary.gardenweb.com/glossary/ (cookies) - Internet Directory for Botany
http://www.botany.net/IDB/idb2.html (in Canada)
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Horticulture
- Lawn & Garden Publications, NC County Cooperative Extension Service
http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/Publications/lawngarden.php - Horticulture sites on the Internet offered by NC State
http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/depts/hort/consumer/hortinternet/
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Animals
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Butterflies
- Butterflies of NC
http://www.rlephoto.com/butterflies/butterflies.html - The Carolina Butterfly Society
http://www.carolinabutterflysociety.org/ - The Butterfly Picture Gallery: butterflies, moths, caterpillars
http://butterflywebsite.com/gallery/index.cfm
Bugs
- Dragonflies of NC
http://www.rlephoto.com/odes/index.html - "Insects" offered by Kansas Dept. Ag. Plant protection and weed control program
http://www.ksda.gov/plant_protection/?cid=1226 (cookies) - Iowa State University Entomology Image Gallery: all kinds of bugs
http://www.ent.iastate.edu/imagegallery/ - Antlion Pit: A Doodlebug Anthology
http://www.antlionpit.com/ - BugGuide.net
http://bugguide.net/
Reptiles
- Snakes of North Carolina
http://www.bio.davidson.edu/projects/herpcons/ herps_of_NC/snakes/snakes.html - What if you see a Snake...
http://www.ou.edu/oupd/sntest.htm
Diseases & Pests
- For information on West Nile Virus, please go to
http://www.deh.enr.state.nc.us/phpm/wnv/index.html - For information on other pests, please see
http://www.deh.enr.state.nc.us/phpm/brochures.htm - Eastern equine encephalitis
http://www.epi.state.nc.us/epi/arbovirus/eee.html
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Biology
- Useful Biology Web sites compiled by John E Silvius, Prof. Biology, Cedarville U, Ohio
http://www.cedarville.edu/academics/sciencemath/silvius/netsites.htm (Creationist links here)
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Space
- Earth and Moon Viewer
http://www.fourmilab.to/earthview/ - Hubble Pix, old and new
http://hubblesite.org/gallery/ - Cassini-Huygens pictures
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/latest/index.cfm - AstroWeb: Astronomy/Astrophysics on the Internet, up-to-date information
http://www.stsci.edu/astroweb/astronomy.html
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Weather
- Weather Underground - get a forecast
http://www.wunderground.com/ (cookie) - Weather On Demand - EarthWatch Comm., Inc.
http://www.earthwatch.com/
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Miscellaneous
- The North American Lichen Project
http://www.lichen.com/ (cookies) - Dangers you may encounter while you're out there poking around...
http://www.ou.edu/oupd/peril.htm - A search engine for kids! Kids.net.au
http://www.kids.net.au - You Can with Beakman and Jax, a commercial site of science stuff for kids
http://www.beakman.bonus.com/beakman/
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