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Invertebrate Societies and Conservation Organisations

Amateur Entomologists' Society www.amentsoc.org/index2.htm

The Balfour-Browne Club, which specialises in Water Beetles www.lifesci.utexas.edu/faculty/sjasper/beetles/BBClub.htm

British Entomological and Natural History Society www.benhs.org.uk

Violet click beetle (Limoniscus violaceus) © Roger Key

Violet click beetle
(Limoniscus violaceus)
© Roger Key

British Myriapod and Isopod Group, with information on British centipedes, millipedes and woodlice www.bmig.org.uk

British Arachnological Society, with information on Britain’s spiders, harvestman and pseudoscorpions www.britishspiders.org.uk

Butterfly Conservation www.butterflyconservation.org

Bees, Wasps and Ants Recording Society www.bwars.com

The Coleopterist - a journal for beetle enthusiasts
www.coleopterist.org.uk

Conchological Society of Great Britain and Ireland www.conchsoc.org

Dipterist’s Forum, an umbrella group for a number of British Fly recording schemes. Some of these have their own websites, details of which are available from the BRC website. http://www.dipteristsforum.org.uk/

British Dragonfly Society www.dragonflysoc.org.uk

Derbyshire and Nottingham Entomological Society
http://www.danes-insects.org.uk

Freshwater Biological Association www.fba.org.uk

Invertebrate Link www.royensoc.co.uk/InvLink/Index.html

Lancashire and Cheshire Entomological Society
www.consult-eco.ndirect.co.uk/entomol/lces

Natural Shropshire
provides details and links to biodiversity related issues in Shropshire.
http://www.naturalshropshire.org.uk/

Shropshire Invertebrate Group (SIG)
explores the invertebrate interest of this varied and under-recorded county.
http://www.insectpix.net

Royal Entomological Society of London
www.royensoc.co.uk

Watford Coleoptera Group - a local group that provides lots of widely useful information about studying beetles
www.thewcg.org.uk

International invertebrate conservation

www.faunaeur.org/external_databases.php#refs
Fauna Europaea – Taxonomic information and links

www.naturekenya.org/Insectcommittee.htm
Nature Kenya Insect Committee - promotes insect conservation in Kenya

www.redlist.org
Searchable database of worldwide threatened invertebrates

www.xerces.org
Xerces Society, a USA based organisation devoted to insect conservation