Chris Monk
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It’s as easy as one, two, bee! New Field Guide to Britain and Ireland’s bumblebees
From English Nature web site:
It’s as easy as one, two, bee!
New Field Guide to Britain and Ireland’s bumblebees
The first-ever comprehensive photographic field guide to the British bumblebee, ‘Field Guide to the Bumblebees of Great Britain and Ireland’ published on Thursday (24 March) uses for the first time a new three-step way to identify bees doing away with the need to put bees under the microscope.
The new technique could help an army of amateur naturalists and professional field workers in the front line of monitoring decades of decline in Britain’s native bumblebees. Information about distribution and numbers can be a bit patchy as some rarer bumblebees have been quite difficult to identify.
Follow three simple steps:
look for presence of and number of yellow bands on thorax and find on colour chart
cross check with pattern on abdomen and accompanying notes on colour chart
confirm identification with photographs and species accounts
The easy-to-use graphic guide has been developed by leading authority Mike Edwards, and entomologist and former secretary of the Bees, Wasps and Ants Recording Society, Martin Jenner. Martin Jenner, a science marketing consultant, came up with the strong visuals that makes the three-step identification guide so simple to use.
The Field Guide to Bumblebees of Britain and Ireland is published by Ocelli and priced £9.99 plus £1.25 postage and packaging. It can be obtained through major book stores or from the publisher’s website www.ocelli.co.uk.
For more information download a copy of Help save the bumblebee...get more buzz from your garden or visit the Nature in the garden part of this website to find our more about gardening with wildlife in mind.
We are working closely with the BBC on the Springwatch campaign to raise awareness and understanding of the key issues that affect wildlife near you.
From English Nature web site:
It’s as easy as one, two, bee!
New Field Guide to Britain and Ireland’s bumblebees
The first-ever comprehensive photographic field guide to the British bumblebee, ‘Field Guide to the Bumblebees of Great Britain and Ireland’ published on Thursday (24 March) uses for the first time a new three-step way to identify bees doing away with the need to put bees under the microscope.
The new technique could help an army of amateur naturalists and professional field workers in the front line of monitoring decades of decline in Britain’s native bumblebees. Information about distribution and numbers can be a bit patchy as some rarer bumblebees have been quite difficult to identify.
Follow three simple steps:
look for presence of and number of yellow bands on thorax and find on colour chart
cross check with pattern on abdomen and accompanying notes on colour chart
confirm identification with photographs and species accounts
The easy-to-use graphic guide has been developed by leading authority Mike Edwards, and entomologist and former secretary of the Bees, Wasps and Ants Recording Society, Martin Jenner. Martin Jenner, a science marketing consultant, came up with the strong visuals that makes the three-step identification guide so simple to use.
The Field Guide to Bumblebees of Britain and Ireland is published by Ocelli and priced £9.99 plus £1.25 postage and packaging. It can be obtained through major book stores or from the publisher’s website www.ocelli.co.uk.
For more information download a copy of Help save the bumblebee...get more buzz from your garden or visit the Nature in the garden part of this website to find our more about gardening with wildlife in mind.
We are working closely with the BBC on the Springwatch campaign to raise awareness and understanding of the key issues that affect wildlife near you.
