Britain's Insects (WILDGuides): A Field Guide to the Insects of Great Britain and Ireland (WILDGuides, 23)

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I reckon if you arrived in the UK from a different country you could use these pages to get to the correct diagnosis of all of our butterflies – the most difficult thing would be getting a good enough view of the critters to be sure of what they are rather than any failings in the text, maps, information on food plants, flight periods etc or the images. A renowned author of insect books and a widely published photographer, he is a world authority on stick and leaf insects, with a genus and several species named after him. I have four of the series and really like them (birds, spiders, hoverflies and this) but even the hoverfly book only covers the species that can be reliably identified without dissection - so you still need Stubbs and Falk if you are really serious. What I remember seeing is likely to be the Common Earwig but the next time I see one I will check it out with this book in case it is one of the other species, but it seems to me that Common Earwigs aren’t quite as common as they used to be. They offer a series of visual choices that guide the reader, but it is these sections that take up space and add to the volume of the book, thus decreasing the number of species accounts that it can contain.

Latest birds: (2023) Grey Plover, (2021) Pied Flycatcher, (2020) Caspian Gull, (2018) Short-eared Owl, (2017) Cattle Egret, Great White Egret, Wood Sandpiper, Quail, Night Heron, Jack Snipe, Pine Bunting (2016) Green-winged Teal, Little Tern, Glossy Ibis, (2013) Bean Goose (Tundra), Spoonbill, White-fronted Goose, Bewick's Swan, (2012) Common Scoter, Lesser Spotted Woodpecker, Grey Partridge, (2011) Sabine's Gull, Cetti's Warbler, Spotted Redshank, Turnstone, Corn Bunting, Brent Goose (Other pre-2011 notables) - Avocet, Bar-tailed Godwit, Bittern, Black-necked Grebe, Black Redstart, Black Tern, Curlew Sandpiper, Dipper, Egyptian Goose, Grey Phalarope, Hen Harrier, Honey Buzzard, Knot, Little Stint, Long-eared Owl, Marsh Harrier, Mediterranean Gull, Merlin, Pectoral Sandpiper, Red-crested Pochard, Ring-necked Duck, Sanderling, Sandwich Tern, Smew, Scaup, Temmincks Stint, Tree Pipit, Whiskered Tern, Whooper Swan, Woodlark, Yellow-legged Gull. Please register for an account to take part in the discussions in the forum, post your pictures in the gallery and more. Many families are prefaced with a table containing a descriptive identification key (example below).This talk looks at the habitats and progress through a typical breeding season, offering an insight into the secret life of this magnificent bird. Like many naturalists my delving into the world of insects started with butterflies, then moths and dragonflies aided at the time by guides by Chinery, which I still have.

For several years he ran field courses to introduce people of all ages to plant and animal life and now lives in Suffolk with his wife Jill. Guy Padfield, Dispar: The Online Journal of Lepidoptera "This is a delightful if demanding book, a major work in fact. Mark Cocker, New Statesman "A superb guide for everyone from the entomological generalist to the interested with an enquiring mind.Attempting to select representatives from the 25,000 species that reside in the UK that can be recognised in the field is always going to leave gaps and disappoint someone. Brock moved to the New Forest in 2008, keen to regularly survey one of the most important areas for insects in the UK, being home to numerous rarities. The emphasis is on their lifestyle, flight periods and the habitats they are found in (including gardens) plus tips on identification. is to put at your disposal the most comprehensive single text yet produced for British insects, packed with key up-to-the-minute data and with 2,600 superb images of nearly 1500 species.