IDmyBee is focused on european wild bee identification, but you can find additional information about the biology of species, their distribution, their intraspecific diversity or different identification tools, more pictures or references about them on other platforms, so don't stay in IDmyBee, explore them too!
List of online resources including European wild bee species:
Atlas Hymenoptera
A multipurpose platform founded by Pierre Rasmont, with a lot of taxonomic data, distributional data, references and sometimes identification data. The data are organized by geographic scales (Belgium, Europe, World) and by genera.
Some species that are absent at one scale (say, Europe), can exist in another page, so don't forget to check the genus index name when you browse.
Discover-life
Another multipurpose platform at world-scale, with a very extensive database on bees thanks to the tremendous work of John S. Ascher and J. Pickering. They even have an online tool for genus identification, along with pictures and distributional data based on museum records.
Westpalbees
A checklist of wild bees from Europe with taxonomic data developed by Michael Kuhlmann.
Palearctic Osmiine Bees
An outstanding website focusing on Osmiine bees (Megachilidae) of Europe and northern parts of Asia, the middle-east and Africa. Written by a lead taxonomist of this group, Andreas Müller, this extensive resource is a must see for anyone interested in these bees.
Exotic Bee ID
A recent website developped in parallel to IDmyBee at Utah State University, with online identification tools and wonderful illustrations. Currently, the website seems focused on world Megachilidae. We can hope that this website will continue to develop to address the other bee groups as well.
Zobodat
A website with many bibliographic references on wild bees, developped by F. Gusenleitner from the Biology Centre of the Upper Austrian Museum. Many of our online references come from there and you can find many more.
BWARS
The website of the Bees, Wasps and Ants Recording Society contains numerous information and illustrations on bee species from the United Kingdom.
BumbleKey
Developed by Andree Cappellari, this website hosts an online identification tool for Bumble bee species from Italy.
ORBIT
The page of a EU-funded project to develop taxonomic resources for wild bees in Europe, including diagnostic characters and illustrations.
SPRING
The page of a EU-funded project to develop a global plan of pollinator monitoring accross Europe to document their dynamics.
You know of other online resources? Please contact us so we can include them in this list.
A multipurpose platform founded by Pierre Rasmont, with a lot of taxonomic data, distributional data, references and sometimes identification data. The data are organized by geographic scales (Belgium, Europe, World) and by genera.
Some species that are absent at one scale (say, Europe), can exist in another page, so don't forget to check the genus index name when you browse.
Discover-life
Another multipurpose platform at world-scale, with a very extensive database on bees thanks to the tremendous work of John S. Ascher and J. Pickering. They even have an online tool for genus identification, along with pictures and distributional data based on museum records.
Westpalbees
A checklist of wild bees from Europe with taxonomic data developed by Michael Kuhlmann.
Palearctic Osmiine Bees
An outstanding website focusing on Osmiine bees (Megachilidae) of Europe and northern parts of Asia, the middle-east and Africa. Written by a lead taxonomist of this group, Andreas Müller, this extensive resource is a must see for anyone interested in these bees.
Exotic Bee ID
A recent website developped in parallel to IDmyBee at Utah State University, with online identification tools and wonderful illustrations. Currently, the website seems focused on world Megachilidae. We can hope that this website will continue to develop to address the other bee groups as well.
Zobodat
A website with many bibliographic references on wild bees, developped by F. Gusenleitner from the Biology Centre of the Upper Austrian Museum. Many of our online references come from there and you can find many more.
BWARS
The website of the Bees, Wasps and Ants Recording Society contains numerous information and illustrations on bee species from the United Kingdom.
BumbleKey
Developed by Andree Cappellari, this website hosts an online identification tool for Bumble bee species from Italy.
ORBIT
The page of a EU-funded project to develop taxonomic resources for wild bees in Europe, including diagnostic characters and illustrations.
SPRING
The page of a EU-funded project to develop a global plan of pollinator monitoring accross Europe to document their dynamics.
You know of other online resources? Please contact us so we can include them in this list.