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    Field Guide to the Bees of Great Britain and Ireland Author: Illustrator: Richard Lewington Format: Paperback First Published: Published By: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC View more from this series: Bloomsbury Wildlife Guides
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    Pages: 432 Illustrations and other contents: 300 col ISBN: 9781472967053 Categories: , , Tags: , ,

    Bees are a fascinating and indispensable group of insects, but sadly many species are in decline. Unfortunately efforts to help determine distributions and changes in abundance have to date been compromised by a serious lack of identification resources. The Field Guide to the Bees of Great Britain and Ireland helps to unravel  the complexities of identification. It is designed to cater for people new to the bee world as well as to more experienced recorders who wish to identify every species accurately.

    This field guide to bees provides the latest information on the identification, ecology, status and distribution of all 275 species of bee in Britain, Ireland and the Channel Islands. The author, Steven Falk, is a professional naturalist and conservationist with over forty years’ experience of working with bees. It is also Illustrated with over 1,000 colour and black & white artworks by Richard Lewington, one of Europe’s leading insect artists.

    • Stunning photographs of living insects as seen in the wild
    • 234 up-to-date distribution maps
    • Comprehensive introduction to bee classification, ecology, field techniques and recording, a full glossary, and information on how to separate the sexes and distinguish bees from other insects
    • Introductions to families and genera, describing key characters and life histories
    • Detailed species descriptions covering field and microscopic characters, similar species, variants, flight season, habitat, flowers visited, nesting habits, status & distribution, and parasites & associates
    • A series of innovative illustrated keys to genera and species, designed to guide the user step by step through the identification process
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    Richard Lewington’s delicate pictures are without equal, but with copious thumbnail diagrams, and close-up photos of body parts, this is also a detailed key work for the specialist wanting to learn more. -- Richard Jones * BBC Wildlife * Bee identification just got a whole lot easier...with Richard Lewington's stunning artwork and Steven Falk's accessible text and identification keys * Bird Table magazine * Comprehensive, well organised, easy to use, beautifully illustrated and packed with detail this is, quite simply, one of the best field guides I’ve had the pleasure of using. -- Calvin Jones * Ireland's Wildlife *

    Author Biography

    Steven Falk is a professional naturalist and conservationist with a particular love for insects. He has worked for the former Nature Conservancy Council, two large museum services, and a wildlife trust. He has been involved with natural history books since his teens, contributing colour artwork to books such as British Hoverflies and the Collins Field Guide to Insects of Britain and Northern Europe. He has also written many scientific papers, popular articles and a county flora for Warwickshire. He currently works for Buglife. Over almost forty years, Richard Lewington has built up a reputation as one of Europe’s finest wildlife illustrators. He first became interested in butterflies as a child when he inherited a cabinet of insects. He studied graphic design at the Berkshire College of Art, and since leaving in 1971 has specialised in natural-history illustration. His meticulous paintings of insects and other wildlife are the mainstay of many of the modern classics of field-guide art.