RESOURCES
HELP WITH INSECT ID
PHONE APPS FOR PHOTO RECOGNITION ID:
- Google Lens app
- iRecord Butterflies app
- Obsidentify app
BOOKS:
- Complete Guide to British Insects by M Chinery
- RES Book of British Insects by PC Barnard
- Concise Insect Guide by The Wildlife Trusts
- WILDGuides Britain’s Insects by PD Brock
- Insects of Britain and Western Europe (3rd ed) by M Chinery
WEBSITES:
Many of the websites listed here provide useful ID guides.
ENTOMOLOGY ORGANISATIONS
- Royal Entomological Society
- British Entomological and Natural History Society
- Amateur Entomologists’ Society
- British Dragonfly Society
- Buglife (invertebrate conservation)
- Butterfly Conservation (includes moths)
- East Midlands Butterfly Conservation
- Society for the Study of Flies
- The Coleopterists Society of Britain and Ireland (ColSoc)
LOCAL NATURAL HISTORY ORGANISATIONS
ENTOMOLOGY WEBSITES
- British Bugs – online ID guide to UK hemiptera
- Guide to moths of GB and Ireland
- UK Beetle Recording
- British Leaf-miners - Information and ID guide
- Tony Davison photography - birds, butterflies and moths
- Natural History Museum collections
- Eakring Birds - extensive resource on Notts invertebrates.
- Derbyshire Moths – for photo-sharing
ENTOMOLOGICAL EQUIPMENT
- Anglian Lepidopterist Supplies (ALS)
- Watkins & Doncaster (naturalists’ equipment)
- Paul Batty’s moth traps and accessories
NATIONAL DATA RECORDING
DaNES PUBLICATIONS (Selected Samples)
JOURNALS:
- DaNES Journal 168
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