ID Resource Resource Finder
The ID Resource Finder is an online searchable catalogue of UK wildlife identification resources. A key feature is that this catalogue is crowd-sourced, all you have to do is create an account to add/edit the resources.
If you spot anything missing, any broken links or mistakes then please jump in and add/fix it. Or let the team know about issue via email: [email protected].
Displaying 351 - 400 of 764.| Title | Description |
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| The Spiders of Great Britain and Ireland | This is the current 'bible' for UK spider identification using microscopic techniques. | Michael Roberts | No | Publication | View Edit |
| Spiders of Britain & Northern Europe | The excellent Collins Guide was published in 1995 and covers most of the UK fauna except around 200 linyphiids (money sp | Michael Roberts | No | Publication | View Edit |
| Guide to Freshwater Invertebrates | This is a key based identification guide to the invertebrates that live in our rivers, streams, lakes, ponds and wetland | Michael Dobson, Simon Pawley, Melanie Fletcher, Anne Powell | No | Publication | View Edit |
| Apples: a field guide | The book is intended to help identify that unknown apple growing in your garden or in the park; to help you choose which | Michael Clark | No | Publication | View Edit |
| RES Handbook Vol 6 Part 4. Hymenoptera - Pompilidae | The family Pompilidae is one of the best-characterised and most easily recognised of the aculeate families represented i | Michael C. Day | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
| The fern guide (3rd edition) | This fully illustrated AIDGAP identification guide should enable most beginners to put a name to the ferns, clubmosses, | Merryweather | No | Publication | View Edit |
| Key to common ferns | This 8-panel laminated fold-out chart features colour images of the commonest 38 of the 53 species of ferns and allied p | Merryweather | No | Publication | View Edit |
| A guide to the identification of deciduous broad-leaved trees and shrubs in winter | This fully illustrated AIDGAP field guide is designed to enable non-specialists to identify many of the deciduous trees | May & Panter | No | Publication | View Edit |
| Euphausiid, Stomatopod and Leptostracan Crustaceans | The three orders of crustaceans described here all belong to the subclass Malacostraca. | Mauchline | No | Publication | View Edit |
| A Key to the Soil Mites of Britain and Ireland | This key should help you to identify families of mites found in soil and litter in the UK and Ireland, as well as introd | Matthew Shepherd and Felicity Crotty | No | View Edit | |
| Soil Biodiversity UK | Facebook group dealing with soil biodiversity in the UK. | Matthew Shepherd | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| UK Bees, Wasps and Ants | Facebook group devoted to the identification and recording of UK hymenoptera (bees, wasps and ants). | Matt Smith | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| The Conifers of Britain | Conifers of Britain is an interactive guide for anyone who wants to identify one of the 50 or so species of coniferous t | Matt Parratt | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Concise Guide to the Moths of Great Britain and Ireland | A great practical solution for every active moth enthusiast - a guide with all the illustrations of the classic Field Gu | Martin Townsend & Paul Waring, illustrated by Richard Lewington | No | Publication | View Edit |
| Identifying bee flies in genus Bombylius | Identification guide to the four British species of bee fly. | Martin Harvey | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
| Identification of soldierflies and allies | Summarises the available resources for identifying soldierflies and allies - Soldierflies, Stratiomyidae; Horseflies, Ta | Martin Harvey | Yes | Online, PDF, Publication | View Edit |
| British grasshoppers and allied insects | 8-panel fold-out chart covers the adults of the grasshoppers, crickets, bush crickets, ground hoppers, cockroaches, earw | Marshall & Ovenden | No | Publication | View Edit |
| Online key to Bee-flies (Bombyliidae) of North-west Europe | This online key to Bee-flies (Bombyliidae) of North-west Europe by Mark Van Veen contains a wide range of Bombyliidae sp | Mark van Veen | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Identifying beetles | The stated aims of Mark Telfer's Beetles website are: provide ‘cribs’ to supplement, clarify, correct and up-date e | Mark Telfer | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Weevil Guides | These are draft guides to genera or species groups of weevils. | Mark Gurney | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
| MCS Jellyfish Guide | Photo guide to 6 species of UK jellyfish plus 2 species of Hydrozoa (Portuguese man-of-war and By the wind sailor) to he | Marine Conservation Society | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
| United Kingdom Turtle Code | Advice for sea users on how to deal with marine turtle encounters, including an identification guide to the five species | Marine Conservation Society | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
| Revised Field Key To The Invertebrate Fauna Of Stony Hill Streams | This illustrated key to the macroscopic invertebrates of small stony hill streams, based on those in the Long Mynd, Shro | MARGARET REDFERN (Mrs. R. A. D. Cameron) | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
| Scutellinia (eyelash fungi) | For some years, Mal Greaves, of the Mid-Yorkshire Fungus Group, has been making a special study of the genus Scutellinia | Malcolm Greaves | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Geoglossum (earth tongues) | For some years, Mal Greaves, of the Mid-Yorkshire Fungus Group, has been making a special study of the genus Scutellinia | Malcolm Greaves | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Guide to ladybirds of the British Isles | Produced in conjunction with the UK Ladybird Survey, this popular fold-out chart to ladybird identification covers 26 of | Majerus et al. | No | Publication | View Edit |
| British Lonchaeidae | RES Handbook vol 10 Part 15. | MacGowan & Rotheray | No | Publication | View Edit |
| A Pictorial Guide to British Ephemeroptera | Ephemeroptera, also known as mayflies or up-wing flies, can be seen emerging from the water, resting on nearby vegetatio | Macadam & Bennett | No | Publication | View Edit |
| RES Handbook Vol 7 Part 11. Classification & biology of braconid wasps (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) | Hymenoptera constitute one of the largest and most successful orders of insects. | M. R. Shaw & T. Huddleston | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
| RES Handbook Vol 1 Part 2. Thysanura and Diplura | THE Thysanura and Diplura comprise two of the four Orders of primitively wingless insects or Apterygota. | M. J. Delaney | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
| RES Handbook Vol 5 Part 10. Coleoptera - Tenebrionidae | THE single family covered by this handbook belongs to that part of the Heteromera (Cucujoidea, section ii of Crowson, 19 | M. J. D. Brendell | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
| Spring Snowdrop Identification | Guide to the snowdrop species and varieties found in the UK. | M. J. Crawley | Yes | View Edit | |
| RES Handbook Vol 7 Part 1. Hymenoptera - Ichneumonoidea (Pimplinae) | The subfamily Pimplinae is biologically the most diverse, and probably the most extensively studied, within the Ichneumo | M. G. Fitton, M. R. Shaw and I. D. Gauld | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
| The Carabidae (ground beetles) of Britain and Ireland | RES Handbook vol 4 part 2. | Luff | No | Publication | View Edit |
| RES Handbook Vol 1 Part 10. Odonata | THE ODONATA or Dragonflies are insects familiar to everyone, and, if we except a few of the larger Neuroptera or Lacewin | Lt-Col. F. C. Fraser, I M S | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
| RES Handbook Vol 1 Parts 12 & 13. Mecoptera Megaloptera Neuroptera | The Orders MECOPTERA, MEGALOPTERA and NEUROPTERA (Planipennia) at one time formed part of the Linnaean Order Neuroptera, | Lt-Col. F. C. Fraser, I M S | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
| The Staphylinidae (rove beetles) of Britain and Ireland (Parts 7 and 8) | RES handbook vol 12 parts 7 and 8. | Lott & Anderson | No | Publication | View Edit |
| The Staphylinidae (rove beetles) of Britain and Ireland (Part 5) | RES handbook vol 12 part 5. | Lott | No | Publication | View Edit |
| British Spiders, Vols I - III | The first 2 volumes of Locket & Millidge's work were completed in 1951 and 53, and remain classic texts on the | Locket, Millidge & Merrett | No | PDF, Publication | View Edit |
| Water horsetail - ID video | A video guide (short YouTube film) to the diagnostic features of Equisetum fluviatile (Water Horsetail) to aid in the id | Lliam Rooney/BSBI | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Great horsetail - iD video | A guide (short YouTube film) to the diagnostic features of Equisetum telmateia (Great Horsetail) to aid in the identific | Lliam Rooney/BSBI | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Tasselweeds - ID video | A video guide (short YouTube film) to the diagnostic features of the Tasselweeds, Ruppia cirrhosa and R. | Lliam Rooney/BSBI | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Tufted Forget-me-not - ID video | A vidoe guide (short YouTube film) to the diagnostic features of Tufted Forget-me-not, to aid in the identification of t | Lliam Rooney/BSBI | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Creeping Forget-me-not - ID video | A video guide (short YouTube film) to the diagnostic features of Creeping Forget-me-not, to aid in the identification of | Lliam Rooney/BSBI | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Forget-me-not - video ID key | A video key (short YouTube film) to the Forget-me-nots found in Kent and commonly found throughout the UK. | Lliam Rooney/BSBI | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Hawthorns - video ID key | A video guide (short YouTube film) to the diagnostic features of the native Hawthorns and its hybrid in the UK to aid in | Lliam Rooney/BSBI | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Poppies - video ID key | A video guide (short YouTube film) to the diagnostic features of the Poppies commonly found in Britain and Ireland to ai | Lliam Rooney/BSBI | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Pseudoscorpion UK | Facebook group for people interested in UK Pseudoscorpions. This is a closed group, but joining is very straightforward. | Liam Andrews | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Caterpillars of butterflies of Britain and Ireland: Identification Guide | Butterflies have four stages in their life cycle (egg – caterpillar – pupa – butterfly). | Lewington & Bebbington | No | Publication | View Edit |
| Day-flying moths: Identification Guide | Around 1500 identified species of moths are found in the British Isles, but most of them fly at dusk or at night. | Lewington | No | Publication | View Edit |
