About Earthynature of Britain

Described in 1781

90 species

Grey-spotted Sedgesitter

Group: True flies
Peak month: April
Records since 2000: 15,504

Silo pallipes

Group: Caddisflies
Peak month: April
Records since 2000: 8,270

Green Carpet

Group: Butterflies and moths
Peak month: May
Records since 2000: 7,759

Early Mining Bee

Group: Bees, wasps and ants
Peak month: May
Records since 2000: 7,566

The Uncertain

Group: Butterflies and moths
Peak month: July
Records since 2000: 6,858

Three Spotted Nettle Bug

Group: True bugs
Peak month: July
Records since 2000: 5,901

Grammoptera ruficornis

Group: Beetles
Peak month: May
Records since 2000: 5,290

Polychrome harp ground beetle

Group: Beetles
Peak month: May
Records since 2000: 2,760

Small Yellow Sedge

Group: Caddisflies
Peak month: May
Records since 2000: 2,644

Halesus digitatus

Group: Caddisflies
Peak month: April
Records since 2000: 2,398

Limonia phragmitidis

Group: True flies
Peak month: May
Records since 2000: 2,397

Dwarf Cream Wave

Group: Butterflies and moths
Peak month: July
Records since 2000: 2,106

Rock Ptarmigan

Group: Birds
Peak month: May
Records since 2000: 1,814

Two-coloured Mason Bee

Group: Bees, wasps and ants
Peak month: May
Records since 2000: 1,599

Large Flax Flea Beetle

Group: Beetles
Peak month: May
Records since 2000: 1,338

Four-striated riverbank ground beetle

Group: Beetles
Peak month: August
Records since 2000: 1,278

Hazel bug

Group: True bugs
Peak month: September
Records since 2000: 1,260

Common issid planthopper

Group: True bugs
Peak month: July
Records since 2000: 1,252

Dexiosoma caninum

Group: True flies
Peak month: July
Records since 2000: 1,157

Bloomed Furrow Bee

Group: Bees, wasps and ants
Peak month: August
Records since 2000: 1,131

Epitriptus cingulatus

Group: True flies
Peak month: August
Records since 2000: 1,089

Waisted Beegrabber

Group: True flies
Peak month: July
Records since 2000: 1,075

Sweat Bee

Group: Bees, wasps and ants
Peak month: June
Records since 2000: 929

Pachytodes cerambyciformis

Group: Beetles
Peak month: June
Records since 2000: 855

Large Ivy Tortrix

Group: Butterflies and moths
Peak month: June
Records since 2000: 837

Polietes lardaria

Group: True flies
Peak month: June
Records since 2000: 837

Longitarsus dorsalis

Group: Beetles
Peak month: April
Records since 2000: 816

Atherix marginata

Group: True flies
Peak month: September
Records since 2000: 812

Great Prominent

Group: Butterflies and moths
Peak month: May
Records since 2000: 750

Brown Willow Beetle

Group: Beetles
Peak month: June
Records since 2000: 700

Mottled Thistle Fly

Group: True flies
Peak month: July
Records since 2000: 689

Girdled Mining Bee

Group: Bees, wasps and ants
Peak month: May
Records since 2000: 657

Norwegian Wasp

Group: Bees, wasps and ants
Peak month: July
Records since 2000: 657

Rivellia syngenesiae

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

Phyllobius virideaeris

Group: Beetles
Peak month: June
Records since 2000: 617

Poplar Caloptilia

Group: Butterflies and moths
Peak month: July
Records since 2000: 579

Five-spotted Club-horned Wasp

Group: Bees, wasps and ants
Peak month: May
Records since 2000: 578

Muscoid fly

Group: True flies
Peak month: July
Records since 2000: 537

Luperus longicornis

Group: Beetles
Peak month: June
Records since 2000: 526

Palporus nitidulus

Group: Beetles
Peak month: July
Records since 2000: 474

Variimorda villosa

Group: Beetles
Peak month: July
Records since 2000: 381

Dorytomus taeniatus

Group: Beetles
Peak month: June
Records since 2000: 375

Exomias araneiformis

Group: Beetles
Peak month: June
Records since 2000: 373

Plagiodera versicolora

Group: Beetles
Peak month: June
Records since 2000: 372

Aethes smeathmanniana

Group: Butterflies and moths
Peak month: May
Records since 2000: 354

Glaucous shears

Group: Butterflies and moths
Peak month: May
Records since 2000: 350

Dacne bipustulata

Group: Beetles
Peak month: May
Records since 2000: 325

Melanimon tibialis

Group: Beetles
Peak month: May
Records since 2000: 306

Lasiopogon cinctus

Group: True flies
Peak month: May
Records since 2000: 299

Andrena pilipes

Group: Bees, wasps and ants
Peak month: June
Records since 2000: 293

Epagoge grotiana

Group: Butterflies and moths
Peak month: July
Records since 2000: 291

Humpback Whale

Group: Mammals
Peak month: October
Records since 2000: 282

Tetanocera elata

Group: True flies
Peak month: July
Records since 2000: 282

Diplazon laetatorius

Group: Bees, wasps and ants
Peak month: July
Records since 2000: 278

Lonchaea chorea

Group: True flies
Peak month: May
Records since 2000: 271

Hypera venusta

Group: Beetles
Peak month: June
Records since 2000: 261

Mullein wave

Group: Butterflies and moths
Peak month: August
Records since 2000: 216

Stenolophus teutonus

Group: Beetles
Peak month: June
Records since 2000: 214

Astata boops

Group: Bees, wasps and ants
Peak month: July
Records since 2000: 207

Ilybius fenestratus

Group: Beetles
Peak month: July
Records since 2000: 207

Orchestes pilosus

Group: Beetles
Peak month: June
Records since 2000: 207

Stictoleptura scutellata

Group: Beetles
Peak month: July
Records since 2000: 205

Silpha tyrolensis

Group: Beetles
Peak month: June
Records since 2000: 197

Tachinus marginellus

Group: Beetles
Peak month: June
Records since 2000: 191

Phyllonorycter schreberella

Group: Butterflies and moths
Peak month: October
Records since 2000: 183

Crossocerus dimidiatus

Group: Bees, wasps and ants
Peak month: June
Records since 2000: 174

Agonopterix yeatiana

Group: Butterflies and moths
Peak month: April
Records since 2000: 172

Reed dagger

Group: Butterflies and moths
Peak month: July
Records since 2000: 169

Chaoborus pallidus

Group: True flies
Peak month: July
Records since 2000: 150

Anthrax anthrax

Group: True flies
Peak month: June
Records since 2000: 143

Dichomeris marginella

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

Ocypus brunnipes

Group: Beetles
Peak month: July
Records since 2000: 127

Lead-coloured drab

Group: Butterflies and moths
Peak month: March
Records since 2000: 121

Choleva angustata

Group: Beetles
Peak month: May
Records since 2000: 119

Nesoselandria morio

Group: Bees, wasps and ants
Peak month: June
Records since 2000: 119

Stethomostus fuliginosus

Group: Bees, wasps and ants
Peak month: June
Records since 2000: 112

Tachina lurida

Group: True flies
Peak month: April
Records since 2000: 112

Phyllonorycter klemannella

Group: Butterflies and moths
Peak month: October
Records since 2000: 107

Dolerus haematodes

Group: Bees, wasps and ants
Peak month: April
Records since 2000: 101

Metalimnobia bifasciata

Group: True flies
Peak month: August
Records since 2000: 99

A water beetle

Group: Beetles
Peak month: July
Records since 2000: 92

Macrophya ribis

Group: Bees, wasps and ants
Peak month: May
Records since 2000: 90

Neurigona quadrifasciata

Group: True flies
Peak month: June
Records since 2000: 89

Nephrotoma dorsalis

Group: True flies
Peak month: July
Records since 2000: 83

Magellanic Penguin

Group: Birds
Peak month: October
Records since 2000: 74

Rockhopper Penguin

Group: Birds
Peak month: October
Records since 2000: 74

Nemapogon clematella

Group: Butterflies and moths
Peak month: July
Records since 2000: 70

Curculio villosus

Group: Beetles
Peak month: May
Records since 2000: 65

Scellus notatus

Group: True flies
Peak month: June
Records since 2000: 64

Phyllonorycter blancardella

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