This page has some additional resources compiled for the above FSC course.
Presentations shown during course
- brief insect taxonomy overview
- insect specimen issues
- using keys
- evidence for insect declines – see also this summary of evidence from Prof. Lynn Dicks, provided to the July 2023 Insect decline and UK food security inquiry for UK Parliament Science, Innovation and Technology Committee
Pantheon for invertebrate assemblages
- Using the Pantheon website to analyse invertebrate species lists (worksheet compiled by Martin Harvey)
Ground beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae)
- “Carabid crib”: guidance compiled by Mark Telfer to help make use of the RES key to ground beetles (Carabidae) – this is version 11 from 6 March 2013, originally sourced from Mark Telfer’s website (which is no longer available)
- John Walters’s beetle identification guides
- Details of a recent split in genus Ocys (O. harpaloides and O. tachysoides are now known to be present in Britain and Ireland): Maddison and Anderson 2016
- Miscellaneous links relating to Carabidae
Hoverflies (Diptera: Syrphidae)
- The UK Hoverflies Facebook Group is very active and provides lots of help and advice. There are also a large number of useful documents available to the files area for this group, including a version of the key to hoverfly tribes with additional photos (if anyone is unable to access via Facebook let me know and I can pass on copies)
- Guide to Syrphus hoverflies (Martin Harvey)
- Miscellaneous links relating to Syrphidae