2007-08-21 An excellent beginners guide but also invaluable for any level of entomologist

It's clear that a lot of painstaking effort has been taken in producing this wonderfully comprehensive and well balanced field guide. The illustrations are superbly clear and the narrative informative and sufficiently detailed to accurately identify different species, although I have struggled a bit with bumble bees, simply because there appears to be so much natural variation. This book really opens your eyes to a whole new world that you might otherwise have taken for granted. Its really quite amazing how much diversity there is on your doorstep, especially moths. I'd recommend carrying a camera with good macro/ telephoto capability though, simply because recalling details later on can be difficult, especially if you're a beginner.