Acknowledgements

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, but note that some images featured may be governed by their own copyright and may not be available for reuse; the origin of anything other than our own work is given along with the caption in particular cases and this page should be consulted for various permissions etc.

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Many excellent images have been very kindly provided by the following people:

Lech Borowiec - http://www.cassidae.uni.wroc.pl/Colpolon/index.htm

Udo Schmidt - https://www.kaefer-der-welt.de/index.htm

Dave Hodges - http://thewcg.org.uk/

Mark Telfer - http://www.markgtelfer.co.uk/

Arved Lompe - http://www.coleo-net.de/coleo/index.htm

Michal Horsák - https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Michal_Horsak

Malcolm Storey - http://www.bioimages.org.uk/

Trever Pendleton - http://www.eakringbirds.com/

Christoph Benisch - https://www.kerbtier.de/enindex.html​

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Additionally, several of our images have been used from the excellent Galerie du Monde des insectes website, as well as the Natural History Museum data portal.

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Keys to the majority of British Beetles are provided by Mike Hackston, and some are featured on this site.

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Thanks as well to Libor Klima for providing many specimens for photography on the site.

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Thanks are also due to long-suffering friends and family who have endured much extraordinarily unsociable behaviour on our part due to the construction of this site.

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Lastly, warm regards are extended to all our beetling friends, home and abroad, for interesting comments, anecdotes and field work etc. Cheers Spider.