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UK Guides - national, regional and county guides to aculeates
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

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.

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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
 

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

Forthcoming: BWARS member Ian Cheeseborough is working on an Atlas of Aculeates of Shropshire. Estimated publication 2008/09.