Insect-related Links

This page is presently undergoing a major revision, so if you have any suggestions, please e-mail me.

I now have a Blog with details of Peregrine Productions and other oddities.

If you cannot find the link you want on this page, you can now search using 'Everclick'. The money goes to charity.

Please help us stop a horrendous eyesore that will destroy important chalk grassland and much wildlife (don't believe what the developer says - but that goes without saying!)
Snoasis Concern We have not got long, so act now.

Talking of dodgy Property Developers - this one with a dodgy hairstyle to match! - Here is a petition worth signing. It is to try to stop a monstrosity destroying an important SSSI in Scotland.

For all your wildlife records, I recommend Mapmate recording software. I use it to store my invertebrate records.

Why not enter the 'Race for the Rainforest' to save South American Rainforest?
It's free - the sponsors pay for the acres of forest that you save.

Links to Insect Organisations
These links are to UK-based conservation organisations that concentrate on insects.
The Amateur Entomologists' Society
National Insect Week 2006

BugLife - The Invertebrate Conservation Trust - The New UK organisation dedicated to promotion of invertebrate conservation.
The British Dragonfly Society
British Butterfly Conservation Society
Bees, Wasps and Ants Recording Scheme
The National Dragonfly Museum

Links to Other Wildlife Organisations
These links relate to wildlife in general in the UK.
The Wildlife Trusts
The RSPB
The Woodland Trust
The Worlwide Fund for Nature (WWF-UK)
The Mammal Society
The Bat Conservation Trust
The Natural History Museum (London)
The British Trust for Conservation Volunteers
BBC Wildlife Magazine
The National Biodiversity Network
UK Biodiversity Action Plans

Other Insect-related sites
Although these sites are not directly related to conservation, they are excellent resources.
Leaf Mines Website
The London and Essex Ladybird Surveys - a recommended site.
UK Moths
The Coleopterist (for Beetles)
Atropos magazine
Buckinghamshire Dragonflies
European Dragonflies
The Entomological Livestock Group
Leicestershire and Rutland Moth Group
Northamptonshire Moth Group
Mapmate Wildlife recording software
Pisces Conservation Producers of software and CD-ROMS of interest to ecologists and naturalists
Adit Biological and environmental recording software

Book stockists
We are stocked by The Natural History Book Service You can now order via NHBS books about insects recommended by Peregrine Productions via this link.
We are also stocked by Picture Book Bird Book Shop in Leek Staffordshire
We are also stocked by Natural World Experience in Warwickshire
WildSounds are likely to be stocking Peregrine Productions in the near future

Wildlife Artists
Andrew Mackay's Website

Local Nature Reserves and Groups
Colwick Park Wildlife Group (Nottingham)
Llanfair Countryside Services (North Wales)
Be Nice to Nettles!!

International Sites
Orthoptera Species File Online

This site was awarded the first Award 2000 by Ceri Jones for a natural history-related web-site. Ceri's Butterfly and Moth site is worth a visit - just click on the award graphic.

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