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.

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Title Description Author(s)sort ascending Free Availability
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 PDF 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 PDF 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

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