About Earthynature of Britain

Described in 1763

118 species

Herring Gull

Group: Birds
Peak month: April
Records since 2000: 1,031,320

Common Carder Bee

Group: Bees, wasps and ants
Peak month: August
Records since 2000: 124,859

Common Murre

Group: Birds
Peak month: July
Records since 2000: 112,186

Red-throated Loon

Group: Birds
Peak month: October
Records since 2000: 61,757

Tapered Drone Fly

Group: True flies
Peak month: April
Records since 2000: 35,005

Arctic Tern

Group: Birds
Peak month: May
Records since 2000: 33,992

Short-eared Owl

Group: Birds
Peak month: January
Records since 2000: 23,364

Common Red Soldier Beetle

Group: Beetles
Peak month: July
Records since 2000: 23,196

False Oil Beetle

Group: Beetles
Peak month: June
Records since 2000: 21,524

Curlew Sandpiper

Group: Birds
Peak month: September
Records since 2000: 16,711

Silver Sedge

Group: Caddisflies
Peak month: September
Records since 2000: 13,603

Soldier fly

Group: True flies
Peak month: June
Records since 2000: 12,979

Common Cardinal Beetle

Group: Beetles
Peak month: May
Records since 2000: 8,863

Straw Dot

Group: Butterflies and moths
Peak month: June
Records since 2000: 8,320

Pale Mottled Willow

Group: Butterflies and moths
Peak month: September
Records since 2000: 6,778

Mother of Pearl

Group: Butterflies and moths
Peak month: July
Records since 2000: 5,854

Brown Silver-line

Group: Butterflies and moths
Peak month: May
Records since 2000: 4,097

Slender Mining Bee

Group: Bees, wasps and ants
Peak month: July
Records since 2000: 3,485

Common Wave

Group: Butterflies and moths
Peak month: July
Records since 2000: 3,101

Common Striped Woodlouse

Group: Crustaceans
Peak month: April
Records since 2000: 3,019

Phaonia tuguriorum

Group: True flies
Peak month: July
Records since 2000: 2,549

Four-spot Ladybird [Harmonia quadripunctata]

Group: Beetles
Peak month: May
Records since 2000: 2,301

Muscid fly

Group: True flies
Peak month: August
Records since 2000: 2,228

Common Copperback

Group: True flies
Peak month: August
Records since 2000: 2,218

Chinese Character

Group: Butterflies and moths
Peak month: July
Records since 2000: 2,203

Twin-spot Centurion

Group: True flies
Peak month: September
Records since 2000: 2,193

Lily Beetle

Group: Beetles
Peak month: May
Records since 2000: 2,178

Tree Wasp

Group: Bees, wasps and ants
Peak month: July
Records since 2000: 2,121

Immaculate Grass-veneer Moth

Group: Butterflies and moths
Peak month: July
Records since 2000: 1,937

Large Fruit-tree Tortrix

Group: Butterflies and moths
Peak month: June
Records since 2000: 1,863

Anchomenus dorsalis

Group: Beetles
Peak month: May
Records since 2000: 1,738

Leaf beetle

Group: Beetles
Peak month: November
Records since 2000: 1,679

Rough-legged Hawk

Group: Birds
Peak month: January
Records since 2000: 1,621

Coriomeris denticulatus

Group: True bugs
Peak month: May
Records since 2000: 1,561

Scarce Small Yellow Sally

Group: Stoneflies
Peak month: April
Records since 2000: 1,468

Cramp-ball Fungus Weevil

Group: Beetles
Peak month: May
Records since 2000: 1,294

Mother of Pearl

Group: Butterflies and moths
Peak month: August
Records since 2000: 1,206

Adela viridella

Group: Butterflies and moths
Peak month: May
Records since 2000: 1,146

Sarcophaga variegata

Group: True flies
Peak month: July
Records since 2000: 1,083

Sciara hemerobioides

Group: True flies
Peak month: July
Records since 2000: 1,057

Phaonia angelicae

Group: True flies
Peak month: August
Records since 2000: 1,001

Dolichopus plumipes

Group: True flies
Peak month: June
Records since 2000: 870

Four-barred Major

Group: True flies
Peak month: July
Records since 2000: 834

Tenthredo temula

Group: Bees, wasps and ants
Peak month: May
Records since 2000: 776

Syrphid Fly

Group: True flies
Peak month: July
Records since 2000: 754

Wheat Flea Beetle

Group: Beetles
Peak month: July
Records since 2000: 746

Anoplius nigerrimus

Group: Bees, wasps and ants
Peak month: June
Records since 2000: 720

Bean Aphid

Group: True bugs
Peak month: June
Records since 2000: 673

Dune Chafer

Group: Beetles
Peak month: June
Records since 2000: 671

Pherbina coryleti

Group: True flies
Peak month: July
Records since 2000: 651

Cionus tuberculosus

Group: Beetles
Peak month: May
Records since 2000: 642

Iridescent Centurion

Group: True flies
Peak month: June
Records since 2000: 638

White-sided Cleaver

Group: Bees, wasps and ants
Peak month: May
Records since 2000: 604

Straw-barred Pearl

Group: Butterflies and moths
Peak month: July
Records since 2000: 591

Cis boleti

Group: Beetles
Peak month: May
Records since 2000: 553

Phaonia rufiventris

Group: True flies
Peak month: May
Records since 2000: 505

Pale Oak Beauty

Group: Butterflies and moths
Peak month: June
Records since 2000: 501

Gorse Orb-weaver

Group: Spiders
Peak month: August
Records since 2000: 458

Pollenia amentaria

Group: True flies
Peak month: April
Records since 2000: 433

Zophomyia temula

Group: True flies
Peak month: June
Records since 2000: 418

Glyphipterix thrasonella

Group: Butterflies and moths
Peak month: June
Records since 2000: 397

Macrophya montana

Group: Bees, wasps and ants
Peak month: June
Records since 2000: 394

Eana osseana

Group: Butterflies and moths
Peak month: August
Records since 2000: 391

Micropterix aruncella

Group: Butterflies and moths
Peak month: June
Records since 2000: 391

Dicranocephalus agilis

Group: True bugs
Peak month: July
Records since 2000: 381

Dingy shell

Group: Butterflies and moths
Peak month: July
Records since 2000: 377

Limnia unguicornis

Group: True flies
Peak month: July
Records since 2000: 359

Metellina merianae

Group: Spiders
Peak month: June
Records since 2000: 355

Hairy Sand Wasp

Group: Bees, wasps and ants
Peak month: June
Records since 2000: 353

Phyllobius glaucus

Group: Beetles
Peak month: May
Records since 2000: 353

Stenus clavicornis

Group: Beetles
Peak month: June
Records since 2000: 347

Small yellow underwing

Group: Butterflies and moths
Peak month: May
Records since 2000: 335

Meticulous neoascia fly

Group: True flies
Peak month: May
Records since 2000: 333

Ilione albiseta

Group: True flies
Peak month: June
Records since 2000: 326

Broad-Billed Sandpiper

Group: Birds
Peak month: May
Records since 2000: 304

Window Gnat

Group: True flies
Peak month: May
Records since 2000: 295

Clouded magpie

Group: Butterflies and moths
Peak month: July
Records since 2000: 286

Drab looper

Group: Butterflies and moths
Peak month: May
Records since 2000: 283

Harpactea hombergi

Group: Spiders
Peak month: June
Records since 2000: 279

Sepedon spinipes

Group: True flies
Peak month: July
Records since 2000: 277

Cauchas rufimitrella

Group: Butterflies and moths
Peak month: May
Records since 2000: 273

Auplopus carbonarius

Group: Bees, wasps and ants
Peak month: June
Records since 2000: 258

Trypetoptera punctulata

Group: True flies
Peak month: June
Records since 2000: 252

A bee

Group: Bees, wasps and ants
Peak month: April
Records since 2000: 241

Oncocera semirubella

Group: Butterflies and moths
Peak month: July
Records since 2000: 239

Brachypera zoilus

Group: Beetles
Peak month: August
Records since 2000: 234

Dead-nettle leaf beetle

Group: Beetles
Peak month: May
Records since 2000: 233

Liancalus virens

Group: True flies
Peak month: June
Records since 2000: 229

Mydaea corni

Group: True flies
Peak month: June
Records since 2000: 226

Micropterix aureatella

Group: Butterflies and moths
Peak month: May
Records since 2000: 210

Oak Leaf-roller

Group: Beetles
Peak month: May
Records since 2000: 201

Cherry-bark Moth

Group: Butterflies and moths
Peak month: June
Records since 2000: 195

Stratiomys longicornis

Group: True flies
Peak month: June
Records since 2000: 170

Rhopalum coarctatum

Group: Bees, wasps and ants
Peak month: July
Records since 2000: 158

Involvulus icosandriae

Group: Beetles
Peak month: May
Records since 2000: 151

Nematus ribesii

Group: Bees, wasps and ants
Peak month: June
Records since 2000: 147

Beosus maritimus

Group: True bugs
Peak month: May
Records since 2000: 146

Caloptilia alchimiella

Group: Butterflies and moths
Peak month: July
Records since 2000: 144

Panurgus calcaratus

Group: Bees, wasps and ants
Peak month: July
Records since 2000: 132

Zygaena purpuralis

Group: Butterflies and moths
Peak month: June
Records since 2000: 128

Euthycera fumigata

Group: True flies
Peak month: July
Records since 2000: 123

Bright wave

Group: Butterflies and moths
Peak month: July
Records since 2000: 100

Dioctria rufipes

Group: True flies
Peak month: May
Records since 2000: 98

Rhynchites auratus

Group: Beetles
Peak month: May
Records since 2000: 88

Stenoptilia bipunctidactyla

Group: Butterflies and moths
Peak month: July
Records since 2000: 80

Adela croesella

Group: Butterflies and moths
Peak month: June
Records since 2000: 76

Lead belle

Group: Butterflies and moths
Peak month: June
Records since 2000: 74

Ocypus ophthalmicus

Group: Beetles
Peak month: August
Records since 2000: 66

Hydaticus transversalis

Group: Beetles
Peak month: June
Records since 2000: 62

Cryptophagus lycoperdi

Group: Beetles
Peak month: October
Records since 2000: 60

Celypha rufana

Group: Butterflies and moths
Peak month: July
Records since 2000: 59

Large Thistle Weevil

Group: Beetles
Peak month: May
Records since 2000: 58

Hedychrum nobile

Group: Bees, wasps and ants
Peak month: July
Records since 2000: 55

Ypsolopha mucronella

Group: Butterflies and moths
Peak month: March
Records since 2000: 55

Nineta flava

Group: Lacewings
Peak month: June
Records since 2000: 54

Osmylus fulvicephalus

Group: Lacewings
Peak month: June
Records since 2000: 54

Allantus cingulatus

Group: Bees, wasps and ants
Peak month: May
Records since 2000: 52

Hydria cervinalis

Group: Butterflies and moths
Peak month: May
Records since 2000: 51