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FloraLocale gives the lowdown on seed provenance for wildflower planting schemes
PostCode Plants recommends species for wildflower planting schemes in your area and soil type
Healthcare Reality Check Science-based Information on Alternative and Complementary Medicine
Mycology
British Mycological Society
BMS (British Mycological Society) Fungal Records Database - check how many records there have been of your prize finds.
Fungus Images on the Net - index of 1600 pictures of fungi on the net. (Pictures in BioImages are not included, even though I sent a list.)
Marek Snowarski's Index of Fungus Images on the Net
A German site with lots of photos of fungi
JJ.Wuilbaut's Fungus Images
Kees Uljˇ's Coprinus Site
British Lichen Society
Association of British Fungus Groups
Zoology
Bernard Picton's home page. Includes excellent sites on Nudibranchs (Sea Slugs) and Porifera (Sponges)
Bryozoans (marine)
Sea-shells and Diving
Crabs found in Belgian waters
Pandalidae found in Belgian waters
Woodlice Home Page
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Insects on WWW (links page)
AES (Amateur Entomologists' Society)
Learn about the planet's most diverse organisms
British Dragonfly Society
Dragonfly Ireland
Dragonflies of the Hampshire & Surrey Borders
Dragonflies and Damselflies in the UK
Atropos: Lepidoptera and Odonata
Lepidoptera and some other life forms Markku Savela's image library,
checklists, distribution maps and insect/foodplant relationships (includes large collection of pictures of set moths)
P. Pakkanen's Butterfly and moth observations from Finland
Kimmo«s Lep Site, NBCi: Microlepidoptera Imagines, Macrolepidoptera Larvae
Captain's European Butterfly Guide
Butterfly Monitoring Scheme
Butterfly Conservation's Millennium Atlas
British Butterflies
Upper Thames Branch Of Butterfly Conservation (good range of Butterfly photos)
The horsechestnut leafminer Cameraria ohridella
Phyllonorycter leucographella - The Firethorn Leaf-miner
IMHO, this is what a web site should look like!
British Entomological and Natural History Society (BENHS)
Amateur Entomological Society
The Coleopterist - Photo Gallery
Fotogalerie Kafer - Photogallery of Beetles - Coleoptera
Roman REJZEK's Buprestidae and Carabus site
Key to Palearctic Flea Beetles
A Coleoptera Bibliography
Bees, Wasps and Ants Recording Scheme (BWARS)
Introduction to Parasitic Wasps
The Diptera Site
Dipterists Forum
The Syrphidae Site
Hoverfly Recording Scheme
Mark van Veen's Diptera keys
Tachinidae (Diptera) Recording Group
Conchological Society of Great Britain and Ireland
The Malachological Society of London
Sea fishes of the North Sea
FishBase - fishes of the world
Waterproof Field Guide to Central European Amphibians
Froglife
Mammal Society
Walker's Mammals of the World - online
BIOSONAR: Seeing with sound
Yorkshire Bats
Bat Conservation Trust
Bat Con
UK Batabase
Bat Ecology & Bioacoustic Lab - Bristol
Norfolk Bat Group
RSPB
BTO
Breeding Birds in the Wider Countryside, 2000 (BTO)
British Birds - Illustrated Guide
Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust
Bird Links to the World
Journals
The Journal of Practical Ecology and Conservation
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Field Mycology
The Coleopterist
The Entomologist's Record and Journal of Variation
UK Statutory
Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000
Natural History-related Humour
"The Modern Entomologist"
Curiosities of Biological Nomenclature
Taylor Lockwood's Myco-Myst
Photography and Image Capture
Photozone (English)
Digital Camera News and Reviews: Digital Photography Review: Forums, Glossary, FAQ
The Imaging Resource
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Maps
Aerial photos of the UK
Multimap - Online Maps to Everywhere
Streetmap - Online Maps
Map History / History of Cartography: THE Gateway to the Subject (old maps)
Historic Maps
NASA Earth Observatory: new images
Equipment Suppliers
InFocus (Binoculars)
Brunel Microscopes
Meiji Techno (Microscopes)
Anglian Lepidoptera Supplies"
The ALS "What Bulb Guide"
B & S Entomological Services (Insect nets - incorporating Marris House Nets)
Watkins & Doncaster (Field Equipment)
D.J. & D. Henshaw, 34, Rounton Road, Waltham Abbey, Essex. EN9 3AR. Tel: 01992-717663,
email: djhagro@aol.com. Supplier of pins and other miscellaneous entomological and microscopy equipment.
Lydie Rigout. (Entomological Equipment)
Dave Walker's microscopy supplier list
Garmin.com
"Tranquility" Bat Detector
Bat Detectors
Alana Ecology
Griffin & George -
large supplier with enormous catalogue of laboratory equipment and chemicals.
Preservation Equipment Ltd (PEL) -
a company specialising in the supply of archival materials including acid-free herbarium and label paper.
(The following information is gleaned from their web-site and from their answers to my questions.)
PEL's Natural History products
for a full listing of their products for our applications. The following look particularly relevant:
PEL's 75 gsm Perma/Dur Bond
archival quality acid-free buffered paper eg for herbarium folders (counteracts acidity of plant material). Can be laser printed.
(MWS says:
People at museums tell me that good quality modern papers (eg Conqueror) are all acid free,
so there's no need to go to the expense of buying special paper for insect specimen labels)
PEL's Resistall Paper
for labels for "wet" natural history collections (those specimens stored in alcohol and formaldehyde) because of
its ability to maintain dimensional stability even when wet. Can be laser printed. Not acid-free.
(MWS says:
1. Alcohol, and especially formaldehyde, oxidise to form acids, so you may want to consider buffering to combat this.
2. Resistall Paper is not cheap, but sizes other than A4 are available in smaller packs.)