California Insect Survey

The California Insect Survey (CIS) was initiated as a project in the Agricultural Experiment Station in 1940. It was located in the Entomology museum at UC Berkeley until it was moved to UC Davis in 2001. The goals of the survey are to characterize the insect fauna of California and provide identification tools to make it possible for specialists and non-specialists alike to identify insect species. It is also intended to give accurate distributional information for California insects.

Publications in the Bulletin of the California Insect Survey treat roughly 12% of the State’s insects. These publications are available for download via http://essig.berkeley.edu/pages/cispubs.htm.