Please suggest a field guide

[Amiguru]

A Field Guide in Colour to Beetles by K. W. Harde, Illus. by F. Severa, ISBN 1-85605-448-9 334 pages, has over 1000 illustrations of the Coleoptera of Britain and Europe. The Blitz edition, (1999), is an english translation from the original german edition published by Franckh'sche Verlagshandlung.
My copy is priced £7.99 so it was a real bargain.

There are 12 other titles in the Blitz series: British Birds, Mushrooms, Animal tracks, Plants and Animals, Minerals and Rocks, Butterflies and Moths, Freshwater Fish, Animal World, Bees and Wasps, Molluscs, Mammals and Insects.

Unfortunate that they don't do the Flies!

[Laurence Clemons]

For a comprehensive selection of field guides try
www.nhbs.com/index.php
You can sort for titles by type e.g. invertebrates and then by popularity.

[Imaginos]

Originally Posted by eeyore

I just found this on Google http://www.handango.com/SoftwareCata...tt=Insect%20ID It runs on a Palm pc

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Two things: it could be a foreign key (the price is in dollars) and the program only identifies to Order (i.e: its a beetle/fly/earwig etc.).

I'd steer clear, there are plenty of books available; mainly because there are plenty of insects out there. NHBS, as Laurence mentions is a good first stop if you're looking.

[Gill Catton]

Originally Posted by Imaginos

Two things: it could be a foreign key (the price is in dollars) and the program only identifies to Order (i.e: its a beetle/fly/earwig etc.).

I'd steer clear, there are plenty of books available; mainly because there are plenty of insects out there. NHBS, as Laurence mentions is a good first stop if you're looking.

hmmm with an interactive DVDROM for birds and another for the flora of the british Isles (including the whole of stace), I don't suppose anything like it is in the pipeling for inverts? There's a butterfly one already I think but I suppose it's probably just too big a field to cover to organise into one disk or one series of disks......

[Blanca]

Hi!

I;m new too to insect watching (in Britain), I need a guide for moths and butterflies that includes caterpillars. Any ideas will be highly apreciated!!!