Online:
Wales - A
Provisional Checklist of the Invertebrates Recorded From Wales. 2. Aculeate
Wasps, Bees & Ants (Hymenoptera Aculeata). Download here:
Staffordshire -
Checklist of Aculeate Hymenoptera in Staffordshire
Warwickshire Bumblebees - Steve Falk (2011). A comprehensive guide
to Warwickshire's bumblebees. Contains many helpful images that will aid
workers trying to separate similar looking species in the field.
Worcestershire - A Review of Worcestershire Aculeate Hymenoptera by
Geoff Trevis (updated 2007)
Essex - web pages from the Essex Field Club, containing maps,
habitat data and information on the species in the county.
East Sussex - A Survey of the Bees and
Wasps od fifteen Chalk Grassland Sites within the East Susses Downs. This is
an extensive report on this area by Steven Falk (2011).
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Books:
Essex
An excellent book by BWARS member Ted Benton
is available through book dealers. The Bumblebees of Essex
presents the first book on the bumblebees of any British county. Covers all
of the bumblebees of Essex and southern England, plus a selection of insects
which mimic bumblebees. Identification keys are provided, along with
detailed distribution. ISBN-10: 0953036243
Somerset & UK
BWARS member Robin Williams has written and illustrated a comprehensive
overview of British Bumblebees with emphasis on the county of
Somerset. The book includes ten appendices providing much
useful information for the study of bumblebees. View contents
hereAvailable direct from the author
Price: £12 including post and packaging (UK):
Robin Williams,
Kyntons Mead,
Heath House,
Wedmore,
Somerset
BS28 4UQ
Kent
BWARS member Geoff Allen has written a comprehensive 448 page account of
the Bees, wasps & Ants
of Kent, containing 120 pages in full colour and many superb
illustrations by the author.
Surrey
BWARS member David Baldock has written a comprehensive 312 page account
of the Bees of Surrey,
containing 48 colour plates and distribution maps for
each species.
David has also written
Wasps of Surrey, containing many
photographs by another BWARS member, Jeremy Early and a comprehensive
account of every wasp recorded in Surrey (90% 0f the British wasp fauna).
Scotland
Highland Bumblebees -
Distribution, Ecology and Conservation, Murdo MacDonald & Gill Nisbet,
HBRG, Inverness. ISBN 0 9552211 0 2. Details from HRBG website.
United Kingdom
A Review of the Scarce & Threatened Bees, Wasps & Ants of Great Britain,
S Falk, 1991,
Joint Nature Conservation Committee. Available from the
Natural History Book
Service
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