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The World Wide Web is a great place to find all sorts of information about water bugs in Australia and all over the world. Here is a short list of websites that are interesting or useful.

Consider the sites listed here as a starting point only.

CSIRO has an enormous amount of fascinating information, with great pictures and drawings, on their website.

Check out the CSIRO’s "Insecta" pages:
www.ento.csiro.au/Ecowatch/Primary/insects/insects/

And CSIRO’s "Invertebrates" pages:
www.ento.csiro.au/Ecowatch/Primary.htm
www.ento.csiro.au/Ecowatch/Secondary.htm
www.ento.csiro.au/Ecowatch/Invertebrates.htm

The DLWC "Wetlands" site has lots of facts and other stuff on aquatic invertebrates, with some great pictures.

Check out the "Aquatic Invertebrates of NSW Wetlands" pages:
www.dlwc.nsw.gov.au/care/wetlands/facts/paa/invertebrates/

The Australian Museum has been in the business of collecting and studying invertebrates, including water bugs, in Australia for 175 years.

Check out the fascinating and useful stuff they have, with lots of great pictures, on their "invertebrate collections" site:
www.austmus.gov.au/invertebrates/collection/

Native Fish Australia has a lot of wonderfully colourful material on yabbies on their website.

See all about the yabby, including how to fish for them and how to cook them! www.nativefish.asn.au/yabby.html

And don’t miss all about the "spiny" yabbies at:
www.nativefish.asn.au/spiny.html

While we’re on the subject of Yabbies, the (Australian) Crayfish World website has lots of interesting stuff.

Check out ‘the list’:
www.crayfishworld.com/paralist.htm

And don’t miss the links to lots of crayfish websites:
www.crayfishworld.com/links1.htm

DLWC coordinates a number of other related programs:

Want to get more serious about water quality monitoring? Check out Waterwatch. www.waterwatch.nsw.gov.au

Join the crime solving sleuths to solve the Murder Under the Microscope environmental crime. www.microscope.edu.au

Wild About Wetlands promotes the restoration project of Manly Lagoon:

The site has links to environmental teaching resources and ways that everyone can look after their waterways: www.wildaboutwetlands.org.au

If you would like to add a link to this list of online resources please email bug.survey@dnr.nsw.gov.au