PREFACE / INTRODUCTION / What is a bee? / Classification of bees
/ At-a-glance guide to bee genera / Species, races, forms and
variations / The life cycle of bees / Enemies and associates of
bees / Habitats of bees / Field techniques for finding and
recording bees / Conserving bees / Societies and recording groups /
Bees beyond Britain and Ireland / FURTHER READING / HOW TO USE THIS
GUIDE / Dichotomous keys / Format of the species accounts /
The colour plates / Male or female? / Is it a bee? / Bee anatomy /
GLOSSARY / Author’s web feature / KEY TO BEE GENERA / FAMILY
COLLETIDAE / Colletes – Plasterer bees / Hylaeus – Yellow-face bees
/ FAMILY ANDRENIDAE /
Andrena – Mining bees / Panurgus – Shaggy bees / FAMILY HALICTIDAE
/ Halictus – End-banded furrow bees /
Lasioglossum – Base-banded furrow bees / Sphecodes – Blood bees /
Rophites – Bristle-headed bees / Dufourea – Short-faced bees /
COLOUR PLATES / FAMILY MELITTIDAE / Melitta – Blunthorn bees /
Macropis – Oil-collecting bees / Dasypoda – Pantaloon bees / FAMILY
MEGACHILIDAE / Anthidium – Wool carders / Stelis – Dark bees /
Heriades – Resin bees / Chelostoma – Scissor bees / Osmia – Mason
bees / Hoplitis – Lesser masons / Megachile – Leafcutter and mud
bees / Coelioxys – Sharp-tail bees / FAMILY APIDAE / Nomada – Nomad
bees / Epeolus – Variegated cuckoo bees / Eucera – Long-horned bees
/ Anthophora – Flower bees / Melecta – Mourning bees /
Ceratina – Small carpenter bees / Xylocopa – Large carpenter bees /
Bombus – Bumblebees / Apis – Honey bees /
CHECKLIST OF THE BEES OF BRITAIN AND IRELAND / INDEX / PHOTOGRAPHIC
CREDITS
Bees are a fascinating and indispensable group of insects
Steven Falk is a professional naturalist and
conservationist with a particular love for insects. He has worked
for the former Nature Conservancy Council, two large museum
services, and a wildlife trust. He has been involved with natural
history books since his teens, contributing colour artwork to books
such as British Hoverflies and the Collins Field Guide to Insects
of Britain and Northern Europe. He has also written many scientific
papers, popular articles and a county flora for Warwickshire. He
currently works for Buglife.
Over almost forty years, Richard Lewington has built up a
reputation as one of Europe’s finest wildlife illustrators. He
first became interested in butterflies as a child when he inherited
a cabinet of insects. He studied graphic design at the Berkshire
College of Art, and since leaving in 1971 has specialised in
natural-history illustration. His meticulous paintings of insects
and other wildlife are the mainstay of many of the modern classics
of field-guide art.
...Richard Lewington’s delicate pictures are without equal, but
with copious thumbnail diagrams, and close-up photos of body parts,
this is also a detailed key work for the specialist wanting to
learn more
*BBC Wildlife*
Bee identification just got a whole lot easier ... with Richard
Lewington's stunning artwork and Steven Falk's accessible text and
identification keys
*Bird Table magazine*
Comprehensive, well organised, easy to use, beautifully illustrated
and packed with detail this is, quite simply, one of the best field
guides I’ve had the pleasure of using
*Ireland's Wildlife*
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