Abstract: In order to improve the teaching quality and enhance the students′ listening interest and cultivate the creative talents, this paper designs the exploration and reform of the teaching methods for the insect taxonomy in the applied undergraduate colleges by enhancing the application of the knowledge of insect taxonomy, including the setting of the teaching method of the taxonomy of insects, the establishment of the target, the way of interaction and discussion. The benefits of student participation, role transformation, and group discussion on the students′ grasp of insect taxonomy were analyzed. The interaction between teachers and students in classroom teaching and group discussionis was an organic unity of teaching and learning, which not only is the requirement of teaching reform, but also is the inevitable choice to improve the teaching effect.

Key words: insect taxonomy, interactive, participatory, group discussion, teaching reform