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Groundhopper Tetrix undulata

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Organisations: Top
Taxon group Organisation Description
Bats Inverness Bat Group Formed in 1996 to investigate, protect and to promote interest in bats.
All Scottish Natural Heritage The Scottish Executive's statutory advisor on the natural heritage - conservation, landscape, sustainable development and access.
All Scottish Wildlife Trust Scotland's leading wildlife NGO.
All Hebridean Whale and Dolphin Trust Records cetaceans and Basking Sharks in Scottish waters.
All JNCC The UK Government's wildlife adviser, working on behalf of the three country nature conservation agencies.  A site with many very useful resources.
All BRISC Coordinates biological recording in Scotland.
Fungi British Mycological Society Access to the fungus database and other resources.
Lichens British Lichen Society A mass of resources on British lichens.
Botany Botanical Society of the British Isles A splendid site, with fabulous resources.
Botany BSBI Atlas A direct link to the BSBI Atlas online.
Botany Plantlife A charity working to protect Britain's wild plants and the habitats in which they are found.
Molluscs Conchological Society Everything you would want to know about Molluscs.
Aranaea British Spiders The website of the British Arachnological Society.
Insects Royal Entomological Society Plays a major role in disseminating information about insects.
Insects British Entomological and Natural History Society Advances research in entomology with an emphasis on conservation.
Insects Amateur Entomologists' Society The UK's leading organisation for people interested in insects.
Diptera Malloch Society A small society dedicated to the study of the Diptera.
Hymenoptera Bees, Wasps and Ants Recording Society The place to go for information on the biology and conservation of all aculeates.
Hymenoptera Bumblebee Conservation Trust Conservation and awareness-raising of bumblebees, established May 2006.
Lepidoptera Butterfly Conservation Highland Branch The Highland branch of Butterfly Conservation.
Lepidoptera Butterfly Conservation All you would want to know about British Butterflies.
Odonata British Dragonfly Society All you would want to know about British Dragonflies.
Invertebrates Buglife The trendy name for the Invertebrate Conservation Trust.
Herptiles Herpetological Conservation Trust All about Amphibians and Reptiles, running the national recording scheme.
Birds Royal Society for the Protection of Birds An organisation that is active in conservation of more than just birds. It is joint lead partner for the BAPs on B. distinguendus, Osmia uncinata and C. floralis.
Birds Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust The leading organisation saving wetlands for wildlife and people across the world.
Mammals Mammals Trust UK Information, resources, surveys on UK mammals.
Mammals Mammal Society  The Mammal Society website.
Mammals Vincent Wildlife Trust Research and conservation.
Bats Bat Conservation Trust Information on British bats.
All Tain & District Field Club One of the premier local naturalists' clubs in Highland.
Plants Inverness Botany Group For all who are interested in botany in the Inverness area.
Otters International Otter Survival Fund Research, education and rehabilitation based on the Isle of Skye.
 
Websites: Top
Wide group Narrow group Site Description
All UKBAP species Scottish UKBAP Dossiers Interactive pages on UKBAP species in Scotland.
All All Skye & Lochalsh Environment Forum Wildlife and environment of Skye and Lochalsh.
All All Bioimages Excellent pictures.
All All NBN The home page of the National Biodiversity Network.
All Maps NBN Gateway Register with NBN, and search the NBN datasets.
All All GBIF The Global Biodiversity Information Facility - HBRG records contribute to this facility.
All All ISpot Run by the Open University OPAL project - upload pictures for identification, or try out online keys.
All All SW Ross Field Club The website of the South-west Ross Field Club
All Marine Marine Life Information Network Information for marine environmental management, protection and education.  A superb resource for species information.
All All Garden Safari Contains some excellent photographs.
All All UKBAP website The UKBAP website.
All All Orkney Biodiversity Project The Orkney LBAP website.
All All Highland Biodiversity Project The Highland LBAP website.
All All Highland Wildlife Foundation Roy Dennis' wildlife website with a variety of features including Osprey migration tracking.
Fungi All Visual mushrooms A very useful resource on fungi.
Lichens All Alan Silverside's Lichen Pages An excellent site with lots of excellent photographs.
Botany Vascular plants British Wild Flowers A site with splendid photographs, indexed by plant name.
Botany All Wild Plants of the British Isles More photographs, and not just of plants.
Botany All Skye and Raasay plants A botanical blog by Stephen Bungard.
Botany All Skye Botany Lots of excellent pictures of plants on Skye by Carl Farmer.
Botany Ferns Ferns in Britain and Ireland Roger Golding's site dealing with ferns and their allies.
Arachnida Opiliones British Harvestmen A new and developing site on a neglected group of spider-like creatures.
Insects All David Element's Wildlife pages Excellent pictures including hoverflies and Conopids.
Insects Coleoptera UK Ladybirds The site for the UK Ladybird survey - lots of information about ladybirds.
Insects Coleoptera Harlequin Ladybird Up to date information on the invasive Asian species in Britain.
Insects Coleoptera Click beetles Lists, maps  and species accounts of these athletic insects.
Insects Diptera Dipterists' Forum Interested in 2-winged flies?  This is the place for you.
Insects Diptera Diptera.info A splendid resource and forum for all Diptera.
Insects Diptera Tephritid recording scheme The website for the picture-winged flies recording scheme.
Insects Diptera Hoverfly Recording Scheme Lots of resources on hoverflies.
Insects Diptera The Tachinid Recording Scheme A resource for people who are interested in studying tachinid flies.
Insects Ephemeroptera Mayfly recording scheme The website for the mayfly recording scheme, with mayfly-related resources.
Insects Hemiptera British Bugs An excellent online identification guide to British Hemiptera (bugs).  But read the disclaimer first!
Insects Hymenoptera HymAToL Hymenoptera glossary and keys - an invaluable resource for hymenopterists.
Insects Hymenoptera Antweb A superb resource on ants of the world.
Insects Hymenoptera Solitary bees All about solitary bees.
Insects Hymenoptera The Bombus Pages On the Natural History Museum website concentrating on the taxonomy of bumblebees.
Insects Hymenoptera The Bumblebee Pages Laura Smith's site has masses of information on bumblebee biology.
Insects Lepidoptera What's this caterpillar? A wonderful site to identify British and European butterfly and moth caterpillars.
Insects Lepidoptera UK Moths Excellent pictures of British moths.
Insects Lepidoptera European Lepidoptera Based in Italy, but in English. Excellent pictures of UK and European species.
Insects Lepidoptera UKleps.org Very useful pictures of eggs, larvae, pupae and adults of British butterflies and moths.
Insects Orthoptera Orthoptera recording scheme How to record grasshoppers and their relatives.  Includes sounds of their songs.
Insects Psocoptera Barkfly Recording Scheme The site for the recording scheme for barkflies (relatives of booklice), with a key to the British species.
Amphibia All UK Amphibians All about UK Amphibians.
Amphibia Recording NARRS The National Amphibian and Reptile Recording Scheme aims to monitor all UK amphibians and reptiles.
Birds Maps UK bird atlas scheme Take part in the 2007-2011 national bird atlas scheme.
Birds Maps British Trust for Ornithology Bird Atlases On-screen maps of distribution of British birds (and access to the rest of the BTO site).
Birds Red Kite Eyes to the Skies A project on Red Kite in Highland, involving local schools.
Birds Migration Super Whooper Whooper Swan tracking by WWT.
Birds Migration BTO Birdtrack Tracking and reporting migrant birds.
Birds Songs The Virtual Bird Listen to stereo .mp3 files of bird song - requires suitable sound software.  Parent site has photos and other bird resources in English, Dutch, French and Finnish!
Birds All Skye Birds All about birds on Skye, including latest sightings.
Mammals Red Squirrel Highland Red Squirrel Group The local arm of the Red Squirrel UK BAP network.
Insects Coleoptera The Coleopterist Website of the leading journal for students of the beetle fauna of the British Isles.
Mammals Badgers Scottish Badgers Umbrella organisation for Scottish Badger groups.
Fungi All Scottish Fungi An information hub for both beginner and established mycologists who are interested in Scottish fungi.
People Naturalists Highland Naturalists SNH project on naturalists of the Highlands & Islands, past and present.
 
Resources on external websites: Top
Subject Type Name Description
All Images Morphbank High quality images.  Look out for the FSI viewer tool it uses.
Botany Lists Outer Hebrides Rare Plants Register Rare plants in VC110.
Botany Lists E Ross Rare Plants Register  Rare plants in VC106.
Insects Keys Wasp key p1 Wasp key p2 Pictorial key (pdf) to British Social Wasps.
Insects Keys Key to Culicoides midges An online guide to the British Culicoides, by John Boorman, with technical diagrams.
Insects Keys Key to NW European Stiletto-flies An online guide to the Stiletto-flies Therevidae of NW Europe.
Insects Keys Key to Nicrophorus burying beetles From Beetle News 1(1): 6, March 2009. A 3Mb .pdffile.
Insects Keys Key to Rhagio Snipe-flies An online guide to the Snipe-flies Rhagioof NW Europe, by M.P. van Veen.
Insects Keys Bedeguar insects key A key to the insects which emerge from Robin's Pincushion galls. A 2Mb .doc file.
Insects Keys British Leaf-miners Keys to dipteran leaf-miners, and links to related sites.
Insects Foodplants Database of Insect Food Plants An excellent resource for botanists and entomologists alike.  Find out what specific insects eat, and what eats particular plants.
Insects Papers Yarrow F. fusca Scan of a classic taxonomic work as a .pdf file.
Insects Papers Yarrow F. rufa Scan of a classic taxonomic work as a.pdf file.
Status Lists Scottish Biodiversity List Links to lists of species on the Scottish Biodiversity List.
Status Lists UKBAP priority lists (June 2007) Reports and the revised species and habitat list as .pdf files.
Access Law SOAC The full text of the Scottish Outdoor Access Codefrom the SNH website.
 
Utilities: Top
Type Name Description
Maps NGR Grabber Find a grid reference from Google Maps.
Maps Ordnance Survey maps online Get a map based on a grid reference or postcode and derive NGRs from it.
Maps Gazeteer and VC finder The UK and Irish Herbaria On-line site has developing but useful-looking resources.
Maps Coordinate converter Convert lat/long coordinates to OSGRs.
Maps GoogleEarth An  immensely useful resource of aerial photographs.
Maps MS Virtual Earth Similar to Google Earth, with better resolution in some areas.  No image save (you can do a screenshot).
Maps AA routefinder Routes and distances between any two points.
Weather Met. Office forecasts Animated charts for 5 day forecasts.
Tides Tide tables Tide times and heights for 7 days ahead.
Software Core ftp Free, easy-to-use software for uploading files to websites.
Software JS Charts Free javascript code for producing customisable graphs and charts.
Software HTML Table Filter Generator Free javascript code by Max Guglielmi, used in the table filters on this page.
Software HTML optimiser A very smart free program from Dirk Paehl to create valid code from your first messy attempts.
Software DMAP Mapping software which was used to create the maps in the site.
Software pdf995 free software Free downloads for converting any document to .pdf format through the File/Print command.
Library Salser library catalogue Online search of Scottish library catalogues.
 
Books: Top
Benton, T. 2006. Bumblebees. Collins, London. ISBN 0 00 717451 9.
Dobson, F.S. 2000. Lichens. Richmond, Slough. ISBN 0 85546 094 6.
Foley, M.& Clarke, S. 2005. Orchids of the British Isles. Griffin Press and RBGE. ISBN 0 9541916 1 7.
Edwards, M.& Jenner, M. 2005. Field Guide to the Bumblebees of Great Britain and Ireland. Ocelli Ltd. ISBN 0 9549713 0 2.
Gilbert, F. 1986. Hoverflies. Naturalists' Handbooks 5. Richmond, Slough.
Gilbert, O. 2000. Lichens. HarperCollins, London. ISBN 0 00 220082 1.
Gilbert, O. 2004. Lichens. Scottish Natural Heritage, Redgorton. ISBN 1 85397 373 4.
Goulson, D. 2003. Bumblebees: their behaviour and ecology. OUP, Oxford. ISBN 0 19 852607 5.
Kirkland, P. 2006. Butterflies. Scottish Natural Heritage, Redgorton. ISBN 1 85397 446 8.
Macdonald, M. 2003. Bumblebees. Scottish Natural Heritage, Redgorton. ISBN 1 85397 364 5.
Macdonald, M. & Nisbet, G. 2006. Highland Bumblebees: Distribution, Ecology and Conservation. HBRG, Inverness. ISBN 978 0 9552211 0 2.
Prys-Jones, O. & Corbet, S.A. 1991. Bumblebees. Naturalists' Handbooks 6. Richmond, Slough.
Raynor, R. 2005. Conserving Scotland's Water Voles. Scottish Natural Heritage, published on line here.
Skinner, G. & Allen, G.W. 1996. Ants. Naturalists' Handbooks 24. Richmond, Slough. ISBN 0 85546 305 8.
Barbour, D., Moran, S., Mainwood, T. & Slater, B. 2008. Atlas of Butterflies in Highland and Moray. HBRG & Butterfly Conservation Highland Branch, Inverness. ISBN 978 0 9552211 2 5.
Reid, J.B., Evans, P.G.H., & Northridge, S.P. 2003. Atlas of Cetacean distribution in north-west European waters. JNCC, Peterborough. A pdf file can be downloaded from the JNCC website.
Yeo, P.F. & Corbet, S.A. 1995. Solitary Wasps. Naturalists' Handbooks 3. Richmond, Slough. ISBN 0 85546 295 7.
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Downloads:  
Biodiversity Heritage Downloadable .pdf files of many classic works.  Some files are very large.
Faune de France online Downloadable .pdf files.  In French, and you will need broadband as the files are large.
Charles Darwin's works online Full text and figures from all of Darwin's works, freely accessible.
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