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Visit the Smithsonian Institution Department of Entomology’s website and learn more about the National Insect Collection and the curatorial and research efforts surrounding it:
http://entomology.si.edu/

Learn more about a variety of insects from the Smithsonian Institution Department of Entomology's bug information sheets:
http://www.si.edu/Encyclopedia_SI/nmnh/buginfo/start.htm

Discover more about 17-year periodical cicadas at the Smithsonian Institution’s 17-year cicada page.  This page was developed to coincide with the 2004 brood X cicada emergence:
http://abbot.si.edu/highlight/cicadas/

Take a glimpse of the Smithsonian Institution’s O. Orkin Insect Zoo by a virtual tour:
http://www.mnh.si.edu/museum/VirtualTour/
Tour/Second/InsectZoo

Download the Insect Zoo Teacher's Guide if you're planning to visit the Insect Zoo with a group of students. http://www.mnh.si.edu/education/edu_pdfs/insectzoo_teachersguide.pdf

See how the Smithsonian Institution’s mosquito collection is used by the U.S. Army’s Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit to conduct mosquito research:
http://www.wrbu.org/

The USDA’s Systematic Entomology Laboratory works closely with t he Smithsonian Institution’s Department of Entomology.  Visit this site and see what service, information, and research SEL has available:
http://www.ars.usda.gov/Main/site_main.htm?
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