Entomology resources
Societies
Amateur Entomologists Society (AES)
An excellent organisation caters for anyone interested in insects. http://www.amentsoc.org/
Lancashire and Cheshire Entomological Society (LCES)
As the name suggests, this group focuses mainly on insects in the North West, but has nationwide membership from various parts of the UK. Produces a journal, and has indoor meetings in the winter. Quite a number of noted entomologists have been members of this society.
www.consult-eco.ndirect.co.uk/entomol/lces/
Buglife
An organisation devoted to the conservation of all invertebrates, and ‘saving Britain's rarest bugs, slugs, snails, bees, wasps, ants, spiders, beetles and many more fascinating invertebrates’.
Websites
UK Ladybird Survey
On this website, you will find lots of information to
help you find and identify species, and online forms so
that you can record your observations.
Books
Bellmann, H. A Field Guide to the Grasshoppers and Crickets of Britain and Northern Europe. London: Collins, 1988. 213p. ISBN 0002198525.
Describes 175 species, with a key, colour photos, a checklist; natural history; identification table of songs.
Chinery, M. Collins Guide to the Insects of Britain and Western Europe. London: Collins, 1986. 320p. ISBN 0002191709. Describes about 2,000 species, with a key to the main groups and many black & white and colour illustrations.
Chinery, M. Insects of Britain and Northern Europe. 3rd ed. New York: HarperCollins, 1986. 320p. (Collins Field Guide Series). ISBN 0002199181.
Any edition of this book is useful and it can be picked up quite cheaply.
Gibbons, Bob. Field Guide to the Insects of Britain and Northern Europe. Marlborough, Wiltshire, England: Crowood, 1995. 320p. ISBN 185223895X.
About 1,500 species; lots of colour photos and line drawings.
Jones, R. A. A Guide to Spiders of Britain and Northern Europe. Rev. ed. London: Hamlyn, 1989. 320 p. ISBN 0600567109.
Describes 350 species, illustrated key to family; color photos; extensive background information
