“Arthropedia is an illustrated alphabet of invertebrates and is my homage to the little things that make the world work.”
Vanna Bartlett
The Book
The Arthropedia website was set up primarily to promote my book ‘Arthropedia: an illustrated alphabet of invertebrates’ (published in 2020) but was always intended to eventually become a useful resource for identifying and learning about invertebrates.
The three years I spent finding, studying and drawing the invertebrates for the ‘Arthropedia’ book really honed my skills as a field naturalist and led to some wonderful encounters with all sorts of insects and other arthropods.
The Blog
The Arthropedia Blog has posts about some of the interesting invertebrates I have found and gives an insight into their fascinating lives. There is also advice on how to find and identify various invertebrates.
County Recorder
As Norfolk County Recorder for Harvestmen and Pseudoscorpions, I am developing ID guides to these two fascinating groups of arachnids which will be available to download from here for free. I have already produced a guide to the species of Harvestmen found in Norfolk with provisional distribution maps for the Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists’ Society. The guide, Harvestmen of Norfolk, can be downloaded from their website.
