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Biological Records Centre
 http://www.brc.ac.uk/recording_schemes.asp
 These schemes collect detailed records of bugs from people like you, to build-up distribution maps for the British Isles; and to gather information on habitats, behaviour, food and seasons. They are operated by dedicated amateurs under the ‘umbrella’ of the Biological Records Centre, formerly at Monks Wood, but since September 2008 at Wallingford, Oxfordshire. |
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Freshwater Invertebrate Survey of Suffolk
http://www.boxvalley.co.uk
This is compiled by Adrian Chalkley. It includes a section entitled Freshwater Invertebrate Survey of Suffolk which includes distribution maps of the county’s water bugs. It also features the Suffolk Naturalists’ e-zine White Admiral, also worth a browse. |  |
National Biodiversity Network
http://nbn.org.uk
The NBN is a project to build the UK's first network of biodiversity information. |  |
NBN Gateway
http://www.searchnbn.net
This site allows you to view distribution maps and download UK wildlife data by using a variety of interactive tools. |  |
NBN / NatHistMus Species Dictionary
http://nbn.nhm.ac.uk/nhm
The Species Dictionary aims to provide a standard reference for names of organisms found in the United Kingdom.
The Dictionary is made up from a collection of over 170 separate checklists of names and other associated information. You can either search individual lists or find organisms by their common or scientific name. |  |
Natural History Museum-Entomology
http://www.nhm.ac.uk/entomology
The Museum's collection of insects and other terrestrial arthropods, including spiders, mites and myriapods, comprises about 28 million specimens. |  |
Amateur Entomological Society
http://www.amentsoc.org/index2.htm
The AES is closely affiliated with the Royal Entomological Society, National Insect Week and Buglife (The Invertebrate Conservation Trust). |  |
British Entomol. & Nat. History Society
http://www.benhs.org.uk
BENHS is a society for both amateur and professional entomologists, and those interested in other branches of natural history. |  |
British Naturalists Association
http://www.bna-naturalists.org
The Association organises information services, publishes literature on natural history and has a lending scheme for magazines and other publications from all over the world. |  |
Department of Entomology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution
http://www.entomology.si.edu
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Buglife, The Invertebrate Conservation Trust
http://www.buglife.org.uk
Buglife - The Invertebrate Conservation Trust is the first organisation in Europe devoted to the conservation of all invertebrates, and we are actively engaged in saving Britain's rarest bugs, slugs, snails, bees, wasps, ants, spiders, beetles and many more fascinating invertebrates. |  |
Book search
http://www.abebooks.com
This site is connected to 10,000 bookshops throughout the world. Searches can be made with ease, most prices including those from British shops are priced in Dollars but there is a conversion chart. Want-Adds can also be placed and as soon as a copy of the book is available you will get an email saying where. Best of all its a free site!. |  |
Wild Guide UK
http://www.WildGuideUK.com
Wild Guide UK is a photographic website run by Martin Evans. Apart from shieldbugs it includes selections of Orthoptera, Diptera and Lepidoptera. There are also links to a large number of natural history sites. |  |
The International Heteropterist's Society
http://www.ndsu.nodak.edu/ndsu/rider/IHS/
The broad objectives of the Society are to promote systematic, biogeographic, and biological studies of Heteroptera and to cultivate cooperative research among heteropterists throughout the world. The Society is organized and operated exclusively for scientific and educational purposes. |  |
Heteroptera at koleopterologie
http://www.koleopterologie.de/heteroptera/
This bilingual site has fine photographs reliably named, it has 3 modes. In 'family mode' each Heteroptera family is illustrated by a representative species. In 'thumbnail mode' select a family to see scrolling thumbnail images of all species available for that family - click on a thumbnail for an enlarged view. 'Recent mode' lists species names for recently added images, select a name to display the image. |  |
The Freshwater Biological Association
http://www.fba.org.uk/recorders
The Freshwater Biological Association aims to promote freshwater biology through scientific meetings, publications, research and authoritative advice. It publishes a variety of identification keys to freshwater organisms and has one of the finest freshwater libraries in the world. The Freshwater Recorders and Schemes Project is dedicated to providing support to volunteer recorders of freshwater information. |  |
Heteropteron
http://www.heteropteron.de/entGerm.htm
This is the German language website of The Middle Europe Heteropterists Working Group. All 30+ issues of their regular newsletter are available as individual downloadable pdf files. In addition, the Contents lists for all issues of Heteropteron are available for browsing on the website, and there is a copy of the Heteroptera species-checklist for Germany. |
