📚 New, rare & second-hand natural history books | Est. 1989 🚚 Worldwide shipping 🌿Entomology, zoology, botany, geology & more
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🐝⚔️ INSECT OF THE YEAR: SEMI-FINALS! ⚔️🦋
Common Carder #Bee vs Poplar #Hawkmoth! Who joins the Common Blue #Damselfly in the grand final?
YOU decide! 👀
👇 Vote in the comments!
🗓️ Closes 20 October
#InsectOfTheYear #BritishInsects
First semi-finals round ends tonight! Cast your vote in the comments!
🦗⚔️ INSECT OF THE YEAR: SEMI-FINALS! ⚔️🦗
The Common Carder #Bee won Round 4!
Time for our first semi-finals: Meadow #Grasshopper VS Common Blue #Damselfly!
Who reaches the final? YOU decide! Vote in the comments!👇
#InsectOfTheYear #BritishInsects
🦗⚔️ INSECT OF THE YEAR: SEMI-FINALS! ⚔️🦗
The Common Carder #Bee won Round 4!
Time for our first semi-finals: Meadow #Grasshopper VS Common Blue #Damselfly!
Who reaches the final? YOU decide! Vote in the comments!👇
#InsectOfTheYear #BritishInsects
Our October #BookOfTheMonth! After meeting with Paul D. Brock at the AES fair last month, we had to 🤭
Grab your copy here: tinyurl.com/mva2s2ya
🪲 Freshly arrived! "Insects of Britain and Europe: A Field Guide" features 3,000+ species and 5,500+ colour photos, with clear ID features, habitats, maps & flight periods. A new essential for insect lovers!
tinyurl.com/mva2s2ya
#Entomology #InsectLovers #FieldGuide
Third #prize draw has taken place. Congratulations Richard in Stirlingshire, you win a £25 book voucher! Next and last one will be on December 31st 👀
This year, as we celebrate 25 years in Iver, we are introducing a quarterly £25 #bookvoucher draw throughout 2026!
Every online and in-store purchase is automatically entered.
First draw: 31st of March
Thank you for supporting specialist bookselling for 25 years 🪲🐞🦗🕷️🦋
🐝⚔️ INSECT OF THE YEAR: ROUND 4! ⚔️🦋
Common Carder #Bee VS Small Tortoiseshell #Butterfly! Who joins the Poplar #Hawkmoth in the semi-finals?
YOU decide, vote in the comments! 👇
Closes 6 October
#InsectOfTheYear #BritishInsects
Our latest #newsletter is out! Check out our Autumn selection, where #entomology is again particularly well represented 🍂
Highlights include the second volume of "#Butterflies of the Western Palaearctic" and "The Casebearer #Moths of Northern Europe".
pemberleybooks.com/newslette…
✨ Freshly published! Discover the fascinating world of the #GlowWorm, from its remarkable light and life cycle to its #ecology, #behaviour and #conservation.
A beautiful new guide to #LampyrisNoctiluca
tinyurl.com/theglowworm
Round 3 ends tonight! Don't forget to cast your vote in the comments!
🦋⚔️ INSECT OF THE YEAR: ROUND 3! ⚔️🪲
Who will joins the Meadow #Grasshopper in the semi-finals?
Poplar #Hawkmoth VS Hawthorn #Shieldbug!
YOU decide, vote in the comments!👇
🗓️ Closes 29 September
#InsectOfTheYear #BritishInsects
🦋⚔️ INSECT OF THE YEAR: ROUND 3! ⚔️🪲
Who will joins the Meadow #Grasshopper in the semi-finals?
Poplar #Hawkmoth VS Hawthorn #Shieldbug!
YOU decide, vote in the comments!👇
🗓️ Closes 29 September
#InsectOfTheYear #BritishInsects
🪲 Freshly arrived! "Insects of Britain and Europe: A Field Guide" features 3,000+ species and 5,500+ colour photos, with clear ID features, habitats, maps & flight periods. A new essential for insect lovers!
tinyurl.com/mva2s2ya
#Entomology #InsectLovers #FieldGuide
Those two little pocket guides have been flying off our shelves! You are loving it so much, they already are our bestsellers this month!
📖 Both available at Pemberley Books
Grab your copy here: tinyurl.com/pocketguidescol
#Ladybirds #Shieldbugs #BritishInsects
🐞 Two handy A6 pocket guides to Britain & Ireland’s #ladybirds and #shieldbugs! Packed with photos and key features, including adults, #larvae and #nymphs.
tinyurl.com/pocketguidescol
#Coleoptera #Hemiptera
🪰⚔️ INSECT OF THE YEAR: ROUND 2! ⚔️🦗
The Common Blue #Damselfly won last round!
Now it's #Cranefly vs #Grasshopper!
Who gets your vote ? 👀 Cast it in the comments below!
🗓️ Voting closes 22 September 2026.
#InsectOfTheYear #BritishInsects
Don't forget to vote for your favourite insect! First round ends tonight 👀
🐞⚔️ INSECT OF THE YEAR: ROUND 1! ⚔️🦋
It’s 7-Spot Ladybird vs Common Blue Damselfly
Who gets your vote? Cast it in the comments below 👇
🗓️ Voting closes 15 September 2026.
May the best insect win! 🏆
#InsectOfTheYear #BritishInsects
🐞 Two handy A6 pocket guides to Britain & Ireland’s #ladybirds and #shieldbugs! Packed with photos and key features, including adults, #larvae and #nymphs.
tinyurl.com/pocketguidescol
#Coleoptera #Hemiptera
🪰 A comprehensive new revision of France’s #RobberFlies (#Asilidae), drawing on museum collections, DNA barcoding & type material.
With new species, taxonomic changes & updated distributions.
Text French.
tinyurl.com/asilidae
#Diptera
🪲 Back in stock: the 2nd impression of this Dutch field guide to #TrueBugs!
Covering 223 Dutch #Pentatomomorpha species, with detailed photos, keys, distribution maps & phenograms.
Text Dutch.
tinyurl.com/wantsenknnv
#Hemiptera @KNNVvereniging
🐞⚔️ INSECT OF THE YEAR: ROUND 1! ⚔️🦋
It’s 7-Spot Ladybird vs Common Blue Damselfly
Who gets your vote? Cast it in the comments below 👇
🗓️ Voting closes 15 September 2026.
May the best insect win! 🏆
#InsectOfTheYear #BritishInsects
We were lucky to get a very nice feature on the @RoyEntSoc's website 🥳
Check it out here: royensoc.co.uk/news/local-sp…
Thank you for celebrating this milestone with us!
We liked it so much, we're making it our September Book of the Month! Perfect for the upcoming autumn months coming ahead 👀🍂
Order your copy here: tinyurl.com/russulakibby
🗣️New in! This book provides the most comprehensive study of the genus #Russula in Britain and seeks to make them more accessible.
Includes over 500 photos, micrographs, illustrations, and new id keys + a card insert with a #spore colour chart.
👉tinyurl.com/russulakibby
#Fungi
