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].
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Author(s) |
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| Identifying bee flies in genus Bombylius | Identification guide to the four British species of bee fly. | Martin Harvey | Yes | Online, PDF | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Soil Biodiversity UK | Facebook group dealing with soil biodiversity in the UK. | Matthew Shepherd | Yes | Online | 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 | |
| Euphausiid, Stomatopod and Leptostracan Crustaceans | The three orders of crustaceans described here all belong to the subclass Malacostraca. | Mauchline | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| A Key to Wild and Introduced Daffodils of Great Britain | In addition to our native daffodil there are a large number of introduced daffodils growing wild in Britain. | Mick Crawley | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
| Features of the Serpent Trail | This long-distance footpath in Surrey, West Sussex and Hampshire, the Serpent Trail links the remaining fragments of low | Middleton | No | Publication | View Edit |
| A key to the British species of family Buprestidae (Coleoptera) | The British species of Buprestidae are very few and are mostly restricted to the South East of Britain. | Mike | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
| Key for the identification of British Kateretidae | The nine British species of this family belong to three genera. | Mike Hackston | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Keys for the identification of British Cantharidae | Keys to the British genera and species of Cantharidae (soldier beetles) | Mike Hackston | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Keys for the identification of British Staphylinidae | This is the largest family of beetles in the UK and includes over 1000 species. | Mike Hackston | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Key for the identification of British Laemophloeidae | Twelve species from this family are on the British list. | Mike Hackston | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Keys for the identification of British Carabidae | The ground beetles are well represented in the British fauna with 362 species from 87 genera in the 2012 list edited by | Mike Hackston | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Key to the British species of Aderidae | The larvae of this family feed on rotting wood and the adults are found in similar habitats. | Mike Hackston | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Key for the identification of British Tenebrionidae | In the current checklist there are 47 species on the British list. | Mike Hackston | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Key for the identification of British Tetratomidae | There are four members of this family on the British list, and they are quite easily separated from one another. | Mike Hackston | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Key for the identification of British Lampyridae | These are the so-called glow-worms. We have three species reported from Britain. | Mike Hackston | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Key for the identification of British Cerambycidae | According to Duff's checklist of British Coleoptera there are 67 species of Cerambycidae (longhorn beetles) which a | Mike Hackston | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Keys for the identification of British Apionidae | This family was covered by Morris (1990) in Orthocerous Weevils: Coleoptera Curculionoidea. | Mike Hackston | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Key for the identification of British Throscidae | There are five species of this family on the British list, Aulonothroscus brevicollis and four species of Trixagus. | Mike Hackston | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Key for the identification of British Latridiidae | The current checklist includes 56 species in 13 genera and 2 subfamilies. | Mike Hackston | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Key for the identification of British Cerylonidae | There are five British species of this family listed in the latest checklist, from two genera. | Mike Hackston | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| List of British species with their food plants | List of British species with their food plants | Mike Hackston | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Key for the identification of British Trogidae | Trogidae, sometimes called hide beetles, is a family of beetles with a distinctive warty or bumpy appearance. | Mike Hackston | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Key for the identification of British Leiodidae | A total of 93 species in 20 genera and four subfamilies are on the latest British checklist. | Mike Hackston | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Keys for the identification of British Chrysomelidae | Keys to genera and species of British leaf beetles | Mike Hackston | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Key to the British species of genus Protapion | This is a widespread and generally common or abundant species throughout the Palaearctic region north to Scandinavia and | Mike Hackston | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Key for the identification of British Trogossitidae | This family contains five British species, each from different genera. | Mike Hackston | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Key for the identification of British Lucanidae | A small family in the British fauna. | Mike Hackston | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Key for the identification of British Ciidae | There are 22 species from 7 genera listed in the latest British checklist. 15 of these belong to genus Cis. | Mike Hackston | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Key to the British species of genus Perapion | Perapion is a genus of pear-shaped weevils in the family of beetles known as Brentidae. | Mike Hackston | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Key for the identification of British Lycidae | A family represented in Britain by four species each in a different genus | Mike Hackston | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Key for the identification of British Clambidae | A small family in the British fauna, comprising ten species in two genera, genus Calyptomerus and Clambus. | Mike Hackston | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Keys to the British genera and species of Anthicidae (flower beetles) | The Anthicidae are a family of beetles that resemble ants. | Mike Hackston | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Key for the identification of British Lymexylidae | Two species of this family are present in Britain, associated with dead and dying trees. | Mike Hackston | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Key for the identification of British Cleridae | There are 15 species of this family on the British list but several of these have not been recorded for over 100 years a | Mike Hackston | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Key for the identification of British Anthribidae | A family of weevils with only ten British species, one of them only found in domestic situations and now very rare due t | Mike Hackston | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Key for the identification of British Attelabidae | Two species of this family are found in Britain, with the larvae feeding in rolled-up leaves of various species of trees | Mike Hackston | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Key for the identification of British Malachiidae | The current check list has 17 species in 11 genera. | Mike Hackston | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Key for the identification of the British Coccinellidae | Some of the species of ladybirds are very common in Britain and easily recognised. | Mike Hackston | Yes | Online | View Edit |
