Links to related websites

DBIF aims to complement other invertebrate and host plant resources on the internet.

For websites containing host plant data:

• BioImages- the Virtual Field-Guide links photos of UK natural history to a range of food web interactions: www.bioimages.org.uk

• British leafminers acts as the ‘National Portrait Gallery' for this conspicuous guild of herbivores, and focuses on identification; there are links to foodplant distributions: www.leafmines.co.uk

• HOSTS is the Natural History Museum's world view of butterfly and moth food plants:
  www.nhm.ac.uk/research-curation/projects/hostplants

• Leaf and Stem Mines of British Flies and Other Insects concentrates on keys for identification: www.ukflymines.co.uk

• Lepidoptera and some other life forms is a Finnish site offering a worldwide coverage: www.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/intro.html

• Plant-SyNZ ™ is a database of invertebrate herbivore - host plant associations in New Zealand, containing information on both non-native invertebrates and plants (presumably some native British species) : www.crop.cri.nz/home/plant-synz/database/databasehome.php

• UK butterflies has encyclopaedic coverage of the British fauna: www.ukbutterflies.co.uk/foodplants.php

For websites with further information about herbivores and plants:

• The Biological Records Centre has contact information for the National Biological Recording Schemes: www.brc.ac.uk/recording_schemes.asp

• The Botanical Society of the British Isles is the leading scientific society in Britain & Ireland for the study of plant distribution and taxonomy: www.bsbi.org.uk/index.html

• The Coleopterist website, with excellent photographs, is the starting point for discovering more about herbivorous British beetles: www.coleopterist.org.uk

• The Dipterists Forum is the starting point for discovering more about herbivorous British flies. Look at the family backgrounds (under Wiki ) in particular for more detailed information on biology and identification: www.dipteristsforum.org.uk

• The National Biodiversity Network holds records on the distributions of higher plants, and of certain herbivores www.searchnbn.net

• UKmoths is an online guide to the moths of Great Britain and Ireland, containing a wealth of beautiful photographs: www.ukmoths.org.uk/index.php