#enotmology

Golden Blue-legged Baboon Spiders (Harpactira pulchripes), hatchlings, family Therphosidae, found in South Africa

Venomous.

Their venom is strong, and considered to be medically serious to humans.

Unlike other Baboon Spiders, they are not aggressive, but rather, are known for being fast and skittish.

Eyed Hawk-moth

Smerinthus ocellatus

From the sphingidae family. They have a wingspan of 70-80 mm. They tend to inhabit gardens, orchards and woodland. They can be found in most of Europe.

Lily Moth (Polytela gloriosae), family Noctuidae, found in India and Sri Lanka (and possibly parts of SE Asia)

That job sounds amazing, best of luck with it! I don’t have a lot of resources I recommend in general since I’ve read so much that everything gets clumped together into one blob of bug knowledge. Don’t worry about looking like an idiot! They hired you for a reason :). They’ll probably teach you about stuff as you work there. 

 A lot of the wikipedia articles on insect biology and ecology are actually quite good. The Borror and Delong “Study of Insects” is the textbook I used for my general entomology class. It’s pretty dry, but informative.You can get older editions cheap off ebay. I like the Field Guide to Insects and Spiders of North America by Evans. It has some insect biology in, but is also a nice guidebook. The Photographic Atlas of Entomology and Guide to Insect Identification is really great for learning insect anatomy. Your local land grant university and extension centers if you’re in the US also have resources on insects. They tend to be more about pests, but they can also be on butterflies etc. 

I also found this website of insect articles for biology teachers that might help: http://www.biology-resources.com/all-insects.html