Identification for Beekeepers. An Illustrated Key to accompany
Rex Sawyer's Book. Our thanks are due to the BBKA who made the
Rex Sawyer collection of micro slides available to us and where
these have been used the micrograph has been labeled ‘RS coll’.
Dr William Kirk of Keele University made available his expertise
and collection of micro slides as did Dr Jane Bunting of Hull
University . Thanks are also due to Dr David Aston for his
valuable advice, John Annett for his sterling work checking the
list of plant species, Anne Spencer and a number of members of
Harrogate and Ripon Beekeepers’ Association who loaned their
micro slides, Mr. Yousef Sulliman of Kuwait and Mr. Les Wells of
Harrogate High School who contributed initial technical advice.
We would like to thank Professor Robert Pickard for allowing us
to use Rex Sawyer’s data base for the core of this CD ROM. It
was in fact Rex Sawyer’s book which was the inspiration for this
work and who in his Pollen Identification For Beekeepers
published several d