Links to other relevant sites

Last update:  11. oktober 2002

Below you will find links to some interesting sites, but you can easily find many more.
Links with English text relates to pages in English, other links relates to pages in Danish or other Scandinavian languages

Oversigt / content: Andre foreninger / other societies - Conservation etc. - Observations, migrations etc. - International conventions - Systematic lists - Miscellaneous - Weather Adgang til den danske natur

News groups:

sci.bio.entomology.lepidoptera

sci.bio.entomology.miscellaneous

Entomologisk foreninger / Entomological societies

Foreninger i Danmark / societies in Denmark

• Nordjysk Lepidopterologklub
• Lepidopteologisk Forening  
• Fynske Entomologer
• Entomologisk Selskab for Fyn
• Entomologisk Forening
• Aarhus Entomologklub

Insektinteresser i Danmark 

• INSEKTSIDEN
• Danmarks Insekter 
• Aarhus Entomologklub

Foreninger i Skandinavien / societies in Scandinavia

• Norsk Entomologisk Forening (Entomological Society of Norway, text mainly in Norwegian)
• Sveriges Entomologiska Förening. Læs bl.a. om Entomologisk Tidsskrift, Entomologens bud, fredede insekter i Sverige o.m.a.
• Lokalforeninger i Sverige. Entomologiska föreningen i Dalarna, Entomologiska föreningen i Stockholm, Entomologiska föreningen i Uppsala, Entomologiska sällskapet i Lund, Föreningen SydOstentomologerna (FSOE), Föreningen Sörmlandsentomologerna, Gotlands Entomologiska Förening, Gästriklands Entomologiska Förening, Norrlands Entomologiska Förening, Västsvenska Entomologklubben, Entomologiska föreningen i Östergötlands
• Finsk Lepidopterologisk Forening / Finnish Lepidopterologist Society

Andre foreninger / other societies

• The Amateur Entomologists' Society. Many usefull publications from the society.
• Royal Entomological Society

Conservation etc.

• Naturvårdsverket i Sverige
• European Red Lists of butterflies.
• IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. Official lists of threatened animal species.
• Dutch Butterfly Conservation. Content of the journal "Vlinders"
• British Butterfly Conservation Society
• European Environment Agency. Among other things access to database with habitats, localities and species in Europe.

Observations, migrations etc.

• Observation and migrations from Germany
• Migrating Lepidoptera and latest observations from UK
• Observations from Finland
• Belgian migrating Lepidoptera. Mainly on migrating Lepidoptera and latest new, many good links. Belgian Migrating Lepidoptera Survey

International conventions

• The Bern Convention, Convention on the conservation of European wildlife and natural habitats
• CITES Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora
• The EU Habitat Directive. EF's habitatdirektiv, dansk tekst (Rådets direktiv af 21. maj 1992 om bevaring af naturtyper samt vilde dyr og planter)

Systematic lists

• Tortricinae Type Specimens. These pages contain photos and data on Tortricinae type specimens.
• Sphingidae of the Western Palaearctic by A.R. Pittaway. Description and figures of each species
• Zoological Museum, Copenhagen, type database
• Checklist of the Finnish Lepidoptera. An online checklist of all Lepidoptera known from Finland (Suomi), including nice pictures of many species.
• European Sesiidae or list of European and North African Sesiidae Fine pages about European clearwings with fotos.
• Swedish Lepidoptera, a checklist with districts.
• Tony Nagypals web-pages on Ornithoptera (the birdwing butterflies). More than 500 pictures.

Miscellaneous

• Apollo Books homepage. Book supplier, specialist in entomological litterature. Mail to order books or latest katalogue
• Philipine butterflies by Jan Petersen
• The Swedish Macrolepidoptera Homepages. News and annual status reports
• The Finnish Lepidoptera Homepages
• Zoological Museum, Copenhagen: The Entomological Department.
• The Swedish pheromone group homepage. Lots of information on pheromones and reseach mainly of pest species.
• Danish nature. General description of our nature, clima, geology etc. and fine picts of selected nature types.
• Distribution maps of Polish butterflies (Rhopalocera)
• Host plant database
• Borrelia er en alvorlig sygdom for alle der færdes i naturen. På dette link kan du læse meget mere om sygdommen.
  Borrelia is a serious disease for all people visiting European nature. Here you find more information.

Weather

• European weather map of today
• Vejret i Danmark, radarbilleder, satellitkort, prognoser, dagens vejrdata (Danmarks Meteorologiske Institut, meget brugbare sider!)
• Weather map archive Very usefull archive of  European and North-Atlantic weather maps with isobars

Adgang til den danske natur

• Links til de danske amters 4 cm kort samt detaljerede luftfotos med markering af naturbeskyttelsesområder o.m.a. Meget brugbart
• Skov- og Naturstyrelsen Herunder bl.a. oversigt over danske skovdistrikter, naturskove m.v.
• Organiseret brug af statsskovene, herunder bekendtgørelse nr. 574 af 25. juni 1992 om offentlighedens adgang til at færdes og opholde sig i naturen og Regler for offentlighedens adgang til statsskovene
• Bekendtgørelse om fredning af krybdyr, padder, hvirvelløse dyr, planter m.m. i Danmark.
• Kort- og Matrikelstyrelsen. Maps of Denmark,  Denmark 1:850.000 free to download