Book recommendations

[htcdude]

Any ideas for good field guides please?

I received for my birthday Dragonflies and Damselflies of Great Britain and Ireland (Brooks and Lewington)

I've ordered Bumblebees of GB & Ireland (Edwards and Jenner)

I have a couple of Butterfly/Moth ones that I have my eye on.

What others can people recommend to help me identify more? One on Hoverflies would be really handy but can people recommend others as well?

Thanks,

Nige

[nightshade]

Hoverflies; Stubbs and Falk

Colour identification Guide to Caterpillars of the British Isles;
Jim Porter

Concise guide to the Moths of Great Britain and Ireland;
Townsend and Waring

Freshwater Life; Britain and Northern Europe;
Greenhaigh and Ovenden

The Bats of Europe and North America; (Uk included of course )
Schober and Grimmberger

Collins Field guide Spiders Britain and Europe;
M.J. Roberts

Animal Tracks and Signs;
Bang and Dahlstrom

[Endrick]

I have a special interest in stoneflies, caddis and mayflies and have several guides. Most are OK and a small book "Waterside Guide" written for fly fishermen by John Goddard is useful.

Howver a very recent purchase is in the "outstanding" class and that is "A Pictorial guide to British Ephemeroptera" by Craig Macadam and Cyril Bennet. It doesn't look much - it's a soft ring back format and feels like a notebook but the information is spot on.

[Jason Claxton]

There are literally tons of books out there HTCdude!
Some to the list would be the AIDGAP series published by the Field Studies Council,covering Lacewings,woodlice and many more.

And if you want to look at coastal fauna.Though not strictly a field guide ,The Handbook of the Marine Fauna of North-west Europe by Hayward and Ryland.

I'm sure you will get many more reccomendations for books yet HTC!


Jason

[nightshade]

Hamlyn Guide toSeashores and Shallow Seas of Britain and Europe;
Cambell and Nicholls. My rock pool guide book

Collins Complete British Insects; Chinery

Complete British Wildlife; Sterry

are a very good inexpensive start to any collection

[htcdude]

Originally Posted by nightshade

Collins Complete British Insects; Chinery

Complete British Wildlife; Sterry

Have got these 2



Thanks all so far for your recommendations The hoverflies one is next on my list, I'm sure others will soon follow!

Nige

[Geoff F]

One of Alan Stubb's other books is British Soldierflies and their Allies.

Besides Soldierflies, it includes Horseflies, Snipe Flies, Robberflies, Bee Flies and a few others.

Amongst my other most used reference material is Grasshoppers and Crickets, I have the Martin Evans & Roger Edmondson book; but there are others. Bees of Surrey covers quite a lot of general information and ID keys which applies to other parts of the country. And I think there is a new Wasp book from the same people.

Harvestmen by P. D. Hillyard is a little publication which I find very useful for these often overlooked 'spider like' creatures.

[htcdude]

Great thanks for those Geoff F