Sample Keys & Guides

The following are sample dichotomous keys created for this demo site. These interactive, richly illustrated keys were developed using Adobe Flash. The following keys are for demonstration purposes only. The final product is scheduled to launch in summer of 2011 in the Canadian Journal of Arthropod Identification (CJAI).

Sample Dichotomous Identification Keys

Identify a pest (Guide to Orders and Familes of Arthropod Pests of Landscape Plants) - Fully illlustrated

Key to Common Mature Lepidoptera Pests of Landscape Plants - Fully illustrated

Key to Common Adult Diptera Pests of Landscape Plants - *Text only

Key to Common Thrips Pests of Landscape Plants - *Text only

*All keys in the final product will be interactive and fully illustrated with images.

Guide Pages

Guide pages are image galleries designed to serve as quick photo references. Certain groups of insects are more efficiently identified using an image guide rather than a dichotomous key.

Guide to Common Adult Beetle Pests of Ontario Landscape Plants

Guide to Common Adult Moths and Butterfly Pests of Ontario Landscape Plants

Guide to Common Pupae and Coccons of Landscape Plants