Explore the diverse flora and fauna on the Downs from season to season through personal observations and photographs

Useful links for insect and spider identification:

Bees, Wasps and Ants Recording Society – https://bwars.com/

The Sawflies of Britain and Ireland – https://www.sawflies.org.uk/resources/

UK Butterflies – https://ukbutterflies.co.uk/index.php

British Bugs: An online identification guide to UK hemiptera – https://www.britishbugs.org.uk/index.html

How to identify common British aphids – https://influentialpoints.com/Gallery/Identify_common_aphids.htm

British leafminers – http://www.leafmines.co.uk/index.htm

British Naturalists’ Association : ID Guides – https://bna-naturalists.org/id-guides/

The Wildlife Trusts : Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Northamptonshire (for Orthoptera) – https://www.wildlifebcn.org/sites/default/files/2018-06/Orthoptera%20keys%20v2.1%202016.pdf

 

Useful links for tree, flower and fungi identification:

The Woodland Trust – https://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/

Wildflowers – https://wildflowerfinder.org.uk/

Brambles of the British Isles – https://www.jnecology.uk/rubus/index.html

 

Other useful links:

NatureSpot – https://www.naturespot.org/

Norfolk Moths – https://norfolkmoths.co.uk/

The British Plant Gall Society – https://www.britishplantgallsociety.org/

Butterfly Conservation – https://butterfly-conservation.org/

 

Reference books:

Falk, S. (2015).  Field Guide to the Bees of Great Britain and Ireland. Bloomsbury Wildlife.