Good Flora & Fauna Links

[crazydave]

well I did a search and noone has picked up on this, its a strange site in the sense of you register and they eamil you the link for a bunch of pdf downloads. seems kosher though.

www.eatweeds.co.uk

[Ahjno]

Thomas J. Elpel's website (known of the book "Botany in a day"):
http://www.wildflowers-and-weeds.com/

Main website:
http://www.hollowtop.com/

[harryhaller]

Just in case anyone, like me a short while ago, didn't realise it existed: A Google directory specifically for Flora and Fauna.

[Joezilla]

www.bugguide.net

its a US site, but they may have other stuff on there too. A great place to work backwards to ID species.

[Fungalpunk]

www.fungalpunknature.co.uk - gotta push me own site for sure

Fungalpunk Dave

[paolo]

Günther website has lots of great pictures of plants, very useful for plants recognition.

Cheers,
Paolo

[mountainm]

http://www.nhm.ac.uk/nature-online/b...html#tree-s1-2

Natural History museums identification guide to over 80 UK trees

[LuckyDucky]

Can anyone suggest a pocket size book on trees, identifying them and best types to use for carving.
Also is there any pocket size books on using natural remidies for fak/medical. Like plants/bark/weeds and other flora and fauna?

Thankyou

[Bosman]

I came across this excellent site for those interested in getting to know what plants can be eaten and what can be used as medicine

http://www.pfaf.org/user/default.aspx

[Androo]

Wonderful online ID site for UK Hemiptera:

http://www.britishbugs.org.uk/index.html

"True bugs (Hemiptera) are one of the major groups of insects found in the UK, comprising nearly 2000 species.

The purpose of this website is to illustrate as many of these as possible, since they are poorly covered by popular field guides. The availability of digital cameras has now made recording images of insects easier than ever before - come and discover the world of bugs and be hooked!"

[Androo]

Almost any UK/Europe specific book on tree ID is a good start. The Collins British Trees book is very popular and very good. A copy of that can often be found in a stationary shop called The Works for a fiver, and other tree ID books crop up in charity shops all the time for probably less than a fiver.

There are a few great threads on this very forum for suitability for carving different types of wood, a quick search often brings up many threads. Some green woodworking books have lists of species and suitability, but that usually only a page or 2.

[Tony]

These are food based links that were sent to me by Dr. Adriano Genovese Medical Director at an Italian Uni so thanks to him.

http://mediterraneandiet.org.uk/ that features a meal plan
on the benefits of the Mediterranean diet and how to live a Mediterranean lifestyle.


and http://www.peta.org/features/vegan-d...fographic.aspx that features a nice
infographic about the vegan diet and list some good sources of nutrients like
iron, calcium and proteins.

[Scots_Charles_River]

Some nice Eagle Pics here http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/pict...?frame=2430973