General
📖A Comprehensive Guide to Insects of Britain & Ireland by Paul D Brock (Pisces Publications; 2nd Edition 2019) [Beg]
📖Insects of Britain and Western Europe by Michael Chinery (A&C Black; 3rd edition 2012) [Beg]
Bees, Wasps, Ants & Sawflies
📖Ants by Gary J Skinner and Geoffrey W Allen (Naturalists’ Handbook #24) 2015 [Beg]
📖Ants of Surrey by John Pontin (Surrey Wildlife Trust, 1st edition 2005) [Beg]
📖 Bumblebees: An Introduction by Nikki Gammans, Richard Comont, SC Morgan and Gill Perkins (Bumblebee Conservation Trust, 2018) [Beg]
📖Field Guide to the Bees of Great Britain and Ireland by Steven Falk and Richard Lewington (Bloomsbury; 2018) [Beg]
📖Guide to Bees of Britain ((Field Studies Council Occasional Publications) [Adv]
📖Identification of Social Wasps by George Else (British Wildlife Magazine 1994 Vol 5 Number 5 June 1994, pp 304-311). [Beg]
↯ Bumblebees – Bumblebee Conservation Trust [Beg]
Beetles
📖A Field Guide in Colour to Beetles by K W Harde (Blitz Editions) [Beg]
📖Field Guide to the Ladybirds of Great Britain & Ireland by Helen Roy (Author), Peter Brown (Author), Richard Lewington (Illustrator) (Bloomsbury, 2018)
📖Ladybirds by Helen E. Roy, Peter M.J. Brown, Richard F. Comont, Remy L. Poland & John J. Sloggett. (Naturalists’ Handbooks 10) [Beg]
Bugs
📕 A Photographic Guide to the Shieldbugs and Squashbugs of the British Isles by Martin Evans & Roger Edmondson (WGUK in association with WILDGuides, 2005) [Beg]
Butterflies and Moths
↯ https://butterfly-conservation.org/moths/whats-flying-tonight For help with identification and finding out what’s flying in your area at any time of year; developed by Butterfly Conservation in partnership with Centre for Ecology & Hydrology and UKMoths. Useful for beginners
📖Butterflies of Britain and Ireland: A Field and Site Guide by Michael Easterbrook (A & C Black Publishers Ltd ) [Beg]
↯ Common Micro-Moths of Berkshire: The Berkshire Moth Group published Common Micro-moths of Berkshire in 2013, and it was very well-received and an excellent resource for those starting out on trying to identify micro-moths. Printed copies are now sold out, but they have made it available as a 2nd edition download, a high quality PDF of about 20 MB available from https://sites.google.com/site/berksmoths/Home/resource_list/microbook
📖Concise Guide to the Moths of Great Britain and Ireland by Martin Townsend and Paul Waring (British Wildlife Publishing Ltd 2017) [Beg]
📖Field Guide to the Caterpillars of Great Britain and Ireland by Barry Henwood (Author), Phil Sterling (Author) and Richard Lewington (Illustrator) (Bloomsbury, 2018)
📖Field Guide to the Micro-Moths of Great Britain and Ireland by Phil Sterling and Mark Parsons (British Wildlife Publishing Ltd 2012) [Adv]
📖Field Guide to the Moths of Great Britain & Ireland by Paul Waring & Martin Townsend (Bloomsbury Natural History; 3rd edition 2017) [Beg]
📖Pocket Guide to the Butterflies of Great Britain & Ireland by Richard Lewington, the 2nd edition (British Wildlife Publishing Ltd 2015) [Beg]
↯ https://ukmoths.org.uk/ An online guide to the moths of Great Britain and Ireland, providing identification help and information about Britain’s moths.
↯ http://upperthamesmoths.blogspot.com/ See what is being caught in the area. Anyone can read the blog but the ability to contribute or comment is limited to signed-up members, normally restricted to those who record moths regularly within the three counties
☎ Field Guide to the Moths of Great Britain and Ireland [Beg]
☎ iRecord Butterflies – Apple [Adv]
☎ iRecord Butterflies – Android [Adv]
Caddisfly (Trichoptera)
📖Simple Key to the Caddis Larvae by Ian Wallace (Field Studies Council Aidgap. 2006) [Beg]
📖The Adult Trichoptera (Caddisflies) of Britain and Ireland by Peter C. Barnard and Emma Ross (Royal Entomological Society Handbook Vol 1 Part 17 2012) [Beg]
↯ The Beginner’s Guide to Caddis (Order Trichoptera) by Ian Wallace [Beg]
Dragonflies and Damselflies (Odonata)
📖Britain’s Dragonflies: A Field Guide to the Damselflies and Dragonflies of Britain and Ireland by Dave Smallshire and Andy Swash (WILDGuide 3rd edition 2014) [Beg]
📖Field Guide to Dragonflies and Damselflies of Great Britain and Ireland by Steve Brooks (British Wildlife Publications; 5th edition 2014) [Beg]
📖Field Guide to the Larvae and Exuviae of British Dragonflies by Steve Cham (British Dragonfly Society 2012) [Beg]
Grasshoppers and Crickets (Orthoptera)
📖A Photographic Guide to the Grasshoppers & Crickets of Britain and Ireland by Martin Evans & Roger Edmondson (WGUK in association with WILDGuides, 2007) [Adv]
📖A Pocket Guide to the Grasshoppers, Crickets & Allied Insects of Britain & Ireland by Bryan Pinchen (Forficula Books, 2006) [Beg]
Other Insects
📖British Soldierflies & their allies by Alan Stubbs & Martin Drake (BENHS 2nd edition 2014). [Adv]
📖British Hoverflies by Alan Stubbs & Steven Falk (BENHS 2nd edition 2002) [Adv]
📖Britain’s Hoverflies: A Field Guide by Stuart Ball & Roger Morris (WILDGuide 2nd edition, 2015) [Adv]
↯ How to identify Hoverflies by Discover Wildlife [Adv]
♥ UK Hoverflies [Adv]