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Species
Groups
By month
Families
Counties
Designations
Most recorded
Year described
Earthy
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Year described
1761
Described in 1761
122
species
1760
1762
Small Skipper
Group
Butterflies and moths
Peak month
July
Records since 2000
177,131
Small Copper
Group
Butterflies and moths
Peak month
August
Records since 2000
142,326
Northern Fulmar
Group
Birds
Peak month
July
Records since 2000
116,637
European Shag
Group
Birds
Peak month
October
Records since 2000
104,847
Chalk-hill Blue
Group
Butterflies and moths
Peak month
August
Records since 2000
60,252
White-tailed Bumble Bee
Group
Bees, wasps and ants
Peak month
July
Records since 2000
40,355
Early Bumble Bee
Group
Bees, wasps and ants
Peak month
June
Records since 2000
38,075
Green Shieldbug
Group
True bugs
Peak month
August
Records since 2000
37,202
Small Garden Bumble Bee
Group
Bees, wasps and ants
Peak month
June
Records since 2000
24,422
Greater Scaup
Group
Birds
Peak month
January
Records since 2000
19,363
Dahlia Anemone
Group
Jellyfish, corals and anemones
Peak month
July
Records since 2000
13,574
Flame Shoulder
Group
Butterflies and moths
Peak month
August
Records since 2000
12,865
Hornet Hoverfly
Group
True flies
Peak month
August
Records since 2000
8,755
Yellow and black longhorn
Group
Beetles
Peak month
July
Records since 2000
8,578
Common Tachinid
Group
True flies
Peak month
August
Records since 2000
8,124
Mystacides azureus
Group
Caddisflies
Peak month
July
Records since 2000
7,824
Light Emerald
Group
Butterflies and moths
Peak month
June
Records since 2000
7,541
Fish Leech
Group
Worms (annelids)
Peak month
October
Records since 2000
6,917
Common Flower Bug
Group
True bugs
Peak month
July
Records since 2000
6,684
Flame
Group
Butterflies and moths
Peak month
June
Records since 2000
5,379
Ferruginous Bee-Grabber
Group
True flies
Peak month
July
Records since 2000
5,065
Chestnut
Group
Butterflies and moths
Peak month
October
Records since 2000
3,800
Common Yellow Sally
Group
Stoneflies
Peak month
April
Records since 2000
3,775
Hydroporus palustris
Group
Beetles
Peak month
July
Records since 2000
3,690
Jersey Tiger
Group
Butterflies and moths
Peak month
August
Records since 2000
3,666
Orange Swift
Group
Butterflies and moths
Peak month
August
Records since 2000
3,650
Field vole
Group
Mammals
Peak month
August
Records since 2000
3,284
Blue-winged Olive
Group
Mayflies
Peak month
September
Records since 2000
3,275
Shrill Carder Bee
Group
Bees, wasps and ants
Peak month
August
Records since 2000
2,973
Clonal Plumose Anemone
Group
Jellyfish, corals and anemones
Peak month
July
Records since 2000
2,931
Feathered Thorn
Group
Butterflies and moths
Peak month
October
Records since 2000
2,337
Shears
Group
Butterflies and moths
Peak month
June
Records since 2000
2,077
Cherrystone beetle
Group
Beetles
Peak month
September
Records since 2000
2,072
Black-headed Cardinal Beetle
Group
Beetles
Peak month
May
Records since 2000
1,862
Bristly Crab
Group
Crustaceans
Peak month
September
Records since 2000
1,825
Tipula maxima
Group
True flies
Peak month
June
Records since 2000
1,779
Wood Ant
Group
Bees, wasps and ants
Peak month
April
Records since 2000
1,703
Long-legged Spider Crab
Group
Crustaceans
Peak month
August
Records since 2000
1,693
Common Green Capsid
Group
True bugs
Peak month
July
Records since 2000
1,649
Dark Marbled Carpet
Group
Butterflies and moths
Peak month
August
Records since 2000
1,574
Bog Bush Cricket
Group
Grasshoppers and crickets
Peak month
August
Records since 2000
1,522
Shoulder-Striped Wainscot
Group
Butterflies and moths
Peak month
June
Records since 2000
1,277
Chevron
Group
Butterflies and moths
Peak month
August
Records since 2000
1,213
Dot Moth
Group
Butterflies and moths
Peak month
July
Records since 2000
1,111
Pododesmus patelliformis
Group
Molluscs
Peak month
August
Records since 2000
1,005
Common Lutestring
Group
Butterflies and moths
Peak month
July
Records since 2000
1,003
Marsh Marigold Moth
Group
Butterflies and moths
Peak month
May
Records since 2000
959
Leafhopper
Group
True bugs
Peak month
July
Records since 2000
875
Yellow-faced Blowfly
Group
True flies
Peak month
July
Records since 2000
789
Large Marsh Horsefly
Group
True flies
Peak month
July
Records since 2000
765
Fixsenia pruni
Group
Butterflies and moths
Peak month
June
Records since 2000
738
Small White-line Dart
Group
Butterflies and moths
Peak month
August
Records since 2000
665
Acorn Piercer
Group
Butterflies and moths
Peak month
July
Records since 2000
658
Beraeodes minutus
Group
Caddisflies
Peak month
October
Records since 2000
647
Brown-spot Pinion
Group
Butterflies and moths
Peak month
September
Records since 2000
641
Leopard Moth
Group
Butterflies and moths
Peak month
July
Records since 2000
613
Wainscot Smudge
Group
Butterflies and moths
Peak month
August
Records since 2000
609
White-shouldered Smudge
Group
Butterflies and moths
Peak month
August
Records since 2000
602
Vernal Colletes
Group
Bees, wasps and ants
Peak month
April
Records since 2000
582
Muslin Footman
Group
Butterflies and moths
Peak month
July
Records since 2000
575
Pond Olive
Group
Mayflies
Peak month
July
Records since 2000
551
Ear Moth
Group
Butterflies and moths
Peak month
August
Records since 2000
545
Feathered Gothic
Group
Butterflies and moths
Peak month
September
Records since 2000
545
Leafhopper
Group
True bugs
Peak month
June
Records since 2000
543
Mottled Shield Bug
Group
True bugs
Peak month
September
Records since 2000
475
Argogorytes mystaceus
Group
Bees, wasps and ants
Peak month
June
Records since 2000
446
Woolly Beech Aphid
Group
True bugs
Peak month
May
Records since 2000
401
Anarta myrtilli
Group
Butterflies and moths
Peak month
August
Records since 2000
388
Mycetophagus quadripustulatus
Group
Beetles
Peak month
June
Records since 2000
358
Alcyonidium gelatinosum
Group
Bryozoans
Peak month
September
Records since 2000
356
A Potter wasp
Group
Bees, wasps and ants
Peak month
July
Records since 2000
335
Coleophora serratella
Group
Butterflies and moths
Peak month
May
Records since 2000
335
Nigrobaetis niger
Group
Mayflies
Peak month
April
Records since 2000
329
Hayhurstia atriplicis
Group
True bugs
Peak month
July
Records since 2000
316
Acleris schalleriana
Group
Butterflies and moths
Peak month
July
Records since 2000
297
Salpingus ruficollis
Group
Beetles
Peak month
July
Records since 2000
288
Little House Fly
Group
True flies
Peak month
June
Records since 2000
277
Waved black
Group
Butterflies and moths
Peak month
July
Records since 2000
277
Cryptocephalus labiatus
Group
Beetles
Peak month
June
Records since 2000
269
Double line
Group
Butterflies and moths
Peak month
July
Records since 2000
264
Chrysis ignita
Group
Bees, wasps and ants
Peak month
June
Records since 2000
263
Cereal leaf beetle
Group
Beetles
Peak month
August
Records since 2000
250
Empis stercorea
Group
True flies
Peak month
June
Records since 2000
247
Scoparia cembrella
Group
Butterflies and moths
Peak month
July
Records since 2000
246
Earias clorana
Group
Butterflies and moths
Peak month
June
Records since 2000
232
Grey sea slug
Group
Molluscs
Peak month
May
Records since 2000
231
Chrysis viridula
Group
Bees, wasps and ants
Peak month
June
Records since 2000
228
Phyllonorycter harrisella
Group
Butterflies and moths
Peak month
May
Records since 2000
212
Metoecus paradoxus
Group
Beetles
Peak month
August
Records since 2000
209
Stenoptilia pterodactyla
Group
Butterflies and moths
Peak month
July
Records since 2000
201
Conops vesicularis
Group
True flies
Peak month
May
Records since 2000
194
A Robber Fly
Group
True flies
Peak month
June
Records since 2000
185
Pleurota bicostella
Group
Butterflies and moths
Peak month
June
Records since 2000
176
A water beetle
Group
Beetles
Peak month
May
Records since 2000
173
Pentastiridius leporinus
Group
True bugs
Peak month
July
Records since 2000
173
Orange underwing
Group
Butterflies and moths
Peak month
March
Records since 2000
172
Caloptilia elongella
Group
Butterflies and moths
Peak month
July
Records since 2000
169
Eristalis interrupta
Group
True flies
Peak month
July
Records since 2000
157
Galerucella tenella
Group
Beetles
Peak month
June
Records since 2000
147
Ancistrocerus parietinus
Group
Bees, wasps and ants
Peak month
June
Records since 2000
131
Dialineura anilis
Group
True flies
Peak month
June
Records since 2000
126
Notidobia ciliaris
Group
Caddisflies
Peak month
May
Records since 2000
126
Leatherback Turtle
Group
Reptiles
Peak month
October
Records since 2000
121
Populicerus populi
Group
True bugs
Peak month
July
Records since 2000
121
Greater-streaked shieldbug
Group
True bugs
Peak month
September
Records since 2000
117
Nemophora metallica
Group
Butterflies and moths
Peak month
July
Records since 2000
115
Hippuriphila modeeri
Group
Beetles
Peak month
June
Records since 2000
113
Garden dart
Group
Butterflies and moths
Peak month
August
Records since 2000
111
Epinotia cruciana
Group
Butterflies and moths
Peak month
July
Records since 2000
106
Alboglossiphonia heteroclita
Group
Worms (annelids)
Peak month
June
Records since 2000
105
Longitarsus atricillus
Group
Beetles
Peak month
November
Records since 2000
98
Coryne muscoides
Group
Jellyfish, corals and anemones
Peak month
May
Records since 2000
97
Opatrum sabulosum
Group
Beetles
Peak month
April
Records since 2000
96
Psila fimetaria
Group
True flies
Peak month
June
Records since 2000
86
Oxythyrea funesta
Group
Beetles
Peak month
June
Records since 2000
84
Double kidney
Group
Butterflies and moths
Peak month
July
Records since 2000
72
Microdon devius
Group
True flies
Peak month
June
Records since 2000
66
Demeijerea rufipes
Group
True flies
Peak month
June
Records since 2000
63
Stathmopoda pedella
Group
Butterflies and moths
Peak month
July
Records since 2000
63
Eugnorisma depuncta
Group
Butterflies and moths
Peak month
August
Records since 2000
62
Bruchus atomarius
Group
Beetles
Peak month
May
Records since 2000
59
Sickle-bearing Bush-Cricket
Group
Grasshoppers and crickets
Peak month
August
Records since 2000
57