A gopher database is now available to anyone interested in insects from Boulder County, Colorado. To access this gopher, point your server to the University of Colorado gopher and to the following subdirectory: Online Library Catalogs, Electronic Books and Reference Databases/ University of Colorado Entomology Database/ This directory looks like this: 1. Coleoptera 2. Hymenoptera 3. Lepidoptera 4. Odonata 5. README To conduct a search within an order, get into the appropriate section of the database and type a slash (/) followed by the search word. Please inform others who may be interested in this database. Below is a summary of the database. University of Colorado Museum Entomology Section Boulder County Database This database contains 26,402 records of insects collected in Boulder County, Colorado from the orders Coleoptera, Hymenoptera, Lepidoptera and Odonata. The fields included for each order are: LOCALITY, DATE, COLLECTOR, FAMILY, ORGANISM (genus, specific epithet and subspecies), and HABITAT/ALTITUDE. This information is drawn primarily from the holdings of the insect collection at the University of Colorado at Boulder Museum. Additional material was collected from the Colorado State University collection, Fort Collins, and the Museum of Natural History, Denver. All data presented in this database are transcribed from the labels of every insect collected in Boulder County and deposited in the above collections. For practical purposes we have excluded insects that were not identified to at least the family level. The locality field represents the most specific geographic location listed on the primary label. The Habitat field represents the specific microhabitat within that geographical location. This is an ongoing project and we welcome suggestions, requests and revisions. We are in the process of entering data from the rest of our collection and would like to make available a database of our entire collection. Please direct any comments you might have to the following: Virginia Scott Museum, Entomology Section Campus Box 218 University of Colorado Boulder, CO 80309-218 Phone: (303) 492-6270 EMAIL: [log in to unmask] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Lee Dyer Dept. of EPO Biology Campus Box 334 University of Colorado Boulder, Colorado 80309 [log in to unmask]