A beautifully illustrated guide to all the ladybirds of the British Isles
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Ladybird habitats
Regional guides
Using this field guide
At-a-glance guide
Conspicuous ladybirds
Inconspicuous ladybirds
Similar species
Potential new species
Useful resources
Glossary
Plant names
Animal names
Photographic credits
Index
Professor Helen Roy combined research with teaching for
10 years before taking up a research position with the Biological
Records Centre, where she works extensively with national
zoological schemes and societies. Her research focuses on the
effects of environmental change on insect populations and
communities, and she is particularly interested in the dynamics of
invasive species and their effects on native biodiversity. Ladybird
ecology has much public appeal, and Helen has taken every
opportunity to communicate her research to a wide audience; this
has included natural history talks, school visits, 'bioblitz',
popular science articles, podcasts and interviews with the
media.
Dr Peter Brown is an ecologist and senior lecturer in
zoology at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge, UK, where he has
worked since 2010 following the completion of his PhD. His research
focuses on three main areas: ladybirds, non-native species and
citizen science. Peter has been studying ladybirds since 2005 and
jointly leads the UK Ladybird Survey with Helen. This is a
long-running project that has generated over 200,000 records of 47
UK ladybird species, contributed by members of the public.
Richard Lewington is regarded as being one of Europe’s
finest wildlife illustrators. 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, including The Butterflies
of Britain and Ireland, Field Guide to the Moths of Great Britain
and Ireland, Guide to Garden Wildlife and Field Guide to the Bees
of Great Britain and Ireland. He has also designed and illustrated
wildlife stamps for several countries. In 1999 he was awarded
Butterfly Conservation's Marsh Award for the promotion of
Lepidoptera conservation, and in 2010 the Zoological Society of
London's Stamford Raffles Award for contribution to zoology.
Whether you fancy the challenge of trying to find all 47 UK
species, or just want to identify the half-dozen or so that might
turn up in your back garden, you need a good field guide, and this
could well be it.
*British Ecological Society's 'The Niche' magazine*
A fantastic field guide.
*British Naturalists' Association's 'Country-Side' magazine*
Authoritative but well-written text supported by illustrations of
the quality we have all come to expect from Richard Lewington, not
to mention an excellent collection of photographs ... highly
recommended.
*BTO book reviews*
The content of this book is a credit to both the authors and
illustrator and with its wealth of useful information should
certainly be given a place in the library of every specialist and
general naturalist.
*Bulletin of the Amateur Entomologists' Society*
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