About Earthynature of Britain

Described in 1822

80 species

Roesel's Bush Cricket

Group: Grasshoppers and crickets
Peak month: July
Records since 2000: 14,752

Rhingia campestris

Group: True flies
Peak month: May
Records since 2000: 9,678

Peacock Worm

Group: Worms (annelids)
Peak month: June
Records since 2000: 7,900

Iceland Gull

Group: Birds
Peak month: January
Records since 2000: 6,693

Black-tailed Aphideater

Group: True flies
Peak month: April
Records since 2000: 6,458

Spotted Meliscaeva

Group: True flies
Peak month: June
Records since 2000: 5,839

Garlic Snail

Group: Molluscs
Peak month: May
Records since 2000: 4,561

Hover fly

Group: True flies
Peak month: April
Records since 2000: 2,928

Small Gaper

Group: Molluscs
Peak month: August
Records since 2000: 2,915

Black-horned Smoothtail

Group: True flies
Peak month: July
Records since 2000: 2,911

Common Sedgesitter

Group: True flies
Peak month: July
Records since 2000: 2,619

Long-billed Dowitcher

Group: Birds
Peak month: October
Records since 2000: 2,603

Syrphus vitripennis

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

Dull-backed Sedgesitter

Group: True flies
Peak month: May
Records since 2000: 1,956

Many-tufted Sedgesitter

Group: True flies
Peak month: August
Records since 2000: 1,409

Hydroporus memnonius

Group: Beetles
Peak month: May
Records since 2000: 1,310

Empis trigramma

Group: True flies
Peak month: May
Records since 2000: 1,307

Banded General

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

Orthonevra splendens

Group: True flies
Peak month: June
Records since 2000: 1,063

Soldier fly

Group: True flies
Peak month: July
Records since 2000: 1,006

Buttercup Blacklet

Group: True flies
Peak month: May
Records since 2000: 987

Orbinia sertulata

Group: Worms (annelids)
Peak month: May
Records since 2000: 922

Hemilepton nitidum

Group: Molluscs
Peak month: August
Records since 2000: 825

Broad-barred Brusheye

Group: True flies
Peak month: May
Records since 2000: 813

Brown Snail

Group: Molluscs
Peak month: September
Records since 2000: 800

Paragus haemorrhous

Group: True flies
Peak month: July
Records since 2000: 791

Platycheirus peltatus Group

Group: True flies
Peak month: August
Records since 2000: 609

Yellow-bowed Smoothwing

Group: True flies
Peak month: July
Records since 2000: 591

Buff-tailed Bear Hoverfly

Group: True flies
Peak month: May
Records since 2000: 534

Platypalpus pallidiventris

Group: True flies
Peak month: June
Records since 2000: 515

Sargus flavipes

Group: True flies
Peak month: September
Records since 2000: 383

Agonum micans

Group: Beetles
Peak month: May
Records since 2000: 355

Polynoe scolopendrina

Group: Worms (annelids)
Peak month: June
Records since 2000: 349

Brachypalpoides lenta

Group: True flies
Peak month: June
Records since 2000: 339

Eumerus funeralis

Group: True flies
Peak month: May
Records since 2000: 339

Sphaerophoria philantha

Group: True flies
Peak month: June
Records since 2000: 334

Cheilosia caerulescens

Group: True flies
Peak month: July
Records since 2000: 325

Platypalpus calceatus

Group: True flies
Peak month: July
Records since 2000: 307

Pipiza festiva

Group: True flies
Peak month: May
Records since 2000: 297

Platypalpus longicornis

Group: True flies
Peak month: May
Records since 2000: 273

Epistrophe nitidicollis

Group: True flies
Peak month: May
Records since 2000: 268

Dune tiger beetle

Group: Beetles
Peak month: June
Records since 2000: 267

Platypalpus annulipes

Group: True flies
Peak month: June
Records since 2000: 257

Sphaerophoria taeniata

Group: True flies
Peak month: July
Records since 2000: 251

Gampsocoris punctipes

Group: True bugs
Peak month: July
Records since 2000: 248

Loimia medusa

Group: Worms (annelids)
Peak month: May
Records since 2000: 237

Solecurtus scopula

Group: Molluscs
Peak month: August
Records since 2000: 237

Erpobdella testacea

Group: Worms (annelids)
Peak month: September
Records since 2000: 218

Acilius canaliculatus

Group: Beetles
Peak month: July
Records since 2000: 199

Rhamphomyia umbripennis

Group: True flies
Peak month: May
Records since 2000: 187

Lejogaster tarsata

Group: True flies
Peak month: June
Records since 2000: 180

Oxycera pardalina

Group: True flies
Peak month: July
Records since 2000: 173

Trichopsomyia flavitarsis

Group: True flies
Peak month: June
Records since 2000: 168

Cheilosia vulpina

Group: True flies
Peak month: August
Records since 2000: 164

Trichopeza longicornis

Group: True flies
Peak month: June
Records since 2000: 149

Gari costulata

Group: Molluscs
Peak month: September
Records since 2000: 139

Cheilosia antiqua

Group: True flies
Peak month: May
Records since 2000: 129

Worm

Group: Worms (annelids)
Peak month: March
Records since 2000: 121

Platypalpus exilis

Group: True flies
Peak month: May
Records since 2000: 120

Empis albinervis

Group: True flies
Peak month: June
Records since 2000: 115

Platypalpus notatus

Group: True flies
Peak month: June
Records since 2000: 115

Neanthes fucata

Group: Worms (annelids)
Peak month: August
Records since 2000: 113

Platypalpus agilis

Group: True flies
Peak month: May
Records since 2000: 110

Eumerus ornatus

Group: True flies
Peak month: June
Records since 2000: 106

Rhamphomyia tarsata

Group: True flies
Peak month: June
Records since 2000: 105

Hilara manicata

Group: True flies
Peak month: July
Records since 2000: 95

Neoascia geniculata

Group: True flies
Peak month: July
Records since 2000: 91

Aritranis director

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

Hilara obscura

Group: True flies
Peak month: June
Records since 2000: 78

Aleiodes unipunctator

Group: Bees, wasps and ants
Peak month: July
Records since 2000: 77

Hyposoter didymator

Group: Bees, wasps and ants
Peak month: July
Records since 2000: 73

Meloboris collector

Group: Bees, wasps and ants
Peak month: July
Records since 2000: 71

Scydmaenus tarsatus

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

A Hoverfly

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

Cheilosia ruralis

Group: True flies
Peak month: April
Records since 2000: 61

Coelichneumon orbitator

Group: Bees, wasps and ants
Peak month: July
Records since 2000: 60

Buathra laborator

Group: Bees, wasps and ants
Peak month: May
Records since 2000: 59

Neanthes nubila

Group: Worms (annelids)
Peak month: April
Records since 2000: 58

Neoascia interrupta

Group: True flies
Peak month: July
Records since 2000: 58

Stenichnus collaris

Group: Beetles
Peak month: June
Records since 2000: 52