UK Bumble Bee Guide. (1 Viewer)

[Gill Osborne]

There's a new book available to help us id these wonderful insects.

Field Guide to the Bumblebees of Great Britain and Ireland by Mike Edwards and Martin Jenner. ISBN 0954971302

This is a neat innovative guide to 22 bumblebee species, with more than 90 excellent photographs, handy identification charts and stacks of information on these fascinating insects.

Normally priced at a very reasonable £9.99 in the shops, you can get a copy for just £8.99 *p&p free*by sending a cheque ( made payable to 'Ocelli Ltd' ) to:

Bumblebee Guide,
Ocelli,
19 Church Street,
Willingdon Village,
Eastbourne,
BN20 9HR.

I'l be sending off for my copy ASAP as I have a few species of bumblers in my garden.

 

[Surreybirder]

Yes, I've got it, though I have to admit I haven't used it much. It's as much as I can do to keep up with dragonflies, butterflies, birds and moths! It's certainly very nicely produced though. I think that some species will still need a gen det to be sure of their ID. It does bring home how many sp are endangered - and the need to provide habitat for the endangered sp.
Ken

 

[harry eales]

There's a new book available to help us id these wonderful insects.

Field Guide to the Bumblebees of Great Britain and Ireland by Mike Edwards and Martin Jenner. ISBN 0954971302

I'l be sending off for my copy ASAP as I have a few species of bumblers in my garden.

It is a very good Field Guide Gill. I got my copy the week they came out, in the middle of last year, I had it on order before it went to press. If I remember correctly I did do a review of this book in here somewhere.

If your still living in the Cheviots Gill, you will see at least five of the six common species, and, if your lucky, three of the scarcer species.

It's sad to relate, that all the British Bumblebee species used to occur in Northumberland in the middle of the 1800's, now we have less than 50% of them.

Harry