Image Acquisition, Digitization, Databasing and Delivery
The Image Database
The University of Georgia Center for Invasive Species and Ecosystem Health operates a set of educational web sites in cooperation with a wide array of federal, state, and private agencies, as well as with many individuals, colleges and universities. Images available through The Bugwood Network image sites (Forestry Images, Invasive.org, IPM Images, and Insect Images) can be used for educational and noncommercial purposes with no royalties and fees contingent upon credit being given to the photographer, the photographer's affiliation (if appropriate) and to appropriate image site thereby ensuring that full descriptive and photographer credit information is available for every image. All commercial usage rights are retained by the photographer or designated image rights' holder.
Database Statistics
292,000+ Images
26,700+ Subjects
2,500+ Photographers
Forestry Images is provides an accessible and easily used archive of high quality images related to forest health and silviculture.
950,000+ average page views per year
280,000+ average users per year
Increased interest in the effect of invasive species on our natural ecosystems created a great demand for quality images to identify current and potential invaders. Invasive.org provides an accessible and easily used archive of high quality images related to identification and management of invasive species.
1.5m+ average page views per year
407,000+ average users per year
IPM Images provides an accessible and easily used archive of high quality images related to Integrated Pest Management of various commodities. The organization of the site lends itself to finding images of insects or diseases in individual commodities. This site also serves as a portal for diagnostic laboratories in finding and contributing images to be used in education and training across the nation and the world.
296,000+ average page views per year
73,000+ average users per year
Insect Images provides an accessible and easily used archive of high quality images related to insects focusing on the organization of images by taxonomic relationships and the type of damage they cause and the various life stages of each species.
385,000+ average page views per year
106,000+ average users per year
Weed Images is a cooperative project with the Weed Science Society of America. It features high quality images related to weeds in agronomic crops, herbicide symptoms and othre topics of importance to Weed Science.
90,000+ average page views per year
14,000+ average users per year