About Earthynature of Britain

Species recorded in Cornwall

1,504 species

Cornwall — county

Field Wood-rush

Group: Flowering plants
Peak month: April
Records since 2000: 9,310

Migrant Hover Fly

Group: True flies
Peak month: June
Records since 2000: 9,218

Japanese Rose

Group: Flowering plants
Peak month: August
Records since 2000: 9,179

Wood Sage

Group: Flowering plants
Peak month: July
Records since 2000: 9,132

Elegant Bristle-moss

Group: Mosses
Peak month: March
Records since 2000: 9,067

Western conifer seed bug

Group: True bugs
Peak month: October
Records since 2000: 9,062

Two-horned Pincerwort

Group: Liverworts
Peak month: July
Records since 2000: 9,024

Grass Snake

Group: Reptiles
Peak month: May
Records since 2000: 8,979

Common Marsh-bedstraw

Group: Flowering plants
Peak month: July
Records since 2000: 8,973

Reddish snail

Group: Molluscs
Peak month: May
Records since 2000: 8,969

Common Field-speedwell

Group: Flowering plants
Peak month: April
Records since 2000: 8,966

Green Yoke-moss

Group: Mosses
Peak month: March
Records since 2000: 8,938

Big Shaggy-moss

Group: Mosses
Peak month: March
Records since 2000: 8,933

Garden Carpet

Group: Butterflies and moths
Peak month: June
Records since 2000: 8,898

Tawny Mining Bee

Group: Bees, wasps and ants
Peak month: April
Records since 2000: 8,881

Common Cardinal Beetle

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

Greater Bulb-fly

Group: True flies
Peak month: June
Records since 2000: 8,814

Common Mallow

Group: Flowering plants
Peak month: June
Records since 2000: 8,810

Nursehound

Group: Fish
Peak month: October
Records since 2000: 8,795

Lustrous Bog-moss

Group: Mosses
Peak month: July
Records since 2000: 8,781

Dog Whelk

Group: Molluscs
Peak month: August
Records since 2000: 8,771

Grey Top Shell

Group: Molluscs
Peak month: August
Records since 2000: 8,765

Marsh Bryum

Group: Mosses
Peak month: July
Records since 2000: 8,764

Hornet Hoverfly

Group: True flies
Peak month: August
Records since 2000: 8,755

Bog Groove-moss

Group: Mosses
Peak month: July
Records since 2000: 8,719

Rusty Swan-neck Moss

Group: Mosses
Peak month: September
Records since 2000: 8,651

Woolly Fringe-moss

Group: Mosses
Peak month: July
Records since 2000: 8,619

Snout

Group: Butterflies and moths
Peak month: July
Records since 2000: 8,616

Long-winged Conehead

Group: Grasshoppers and crickets
Peak month: August
Records since 2000: 8,597

Yellow and black longhorn

Group: Beetles
Peak month: July
Records since 2000: 8,578

Hover Fly

Group: True flies
Peak month: July
Records since 2000: 8,563

Red deer

Group: Mammals
Peak month: October
Records since 2000: 8,537

Common Pouchwort

Group: Liverworts
Peak month: July
Records since 2000: 8,512

Anomalous Bristle-moss

Group: Mosses
Peak month: March
Records since 2000: 8,502

Black Snipefly

Group: True flies
Peak month: June
Records since 2000: 8,496

Eurasian Nightjar

Group: Birds
Peak month: June
Records since 2000: 8,474

Common Cottongrass

Group: Flowering plants
Peak month: June
Records since 2000: 8,473

Sooty shearwater

Group: Birds
Peak month: September
Records since 2000: 8,460

Grannom Caddisfly

Group: Caddisflies
Peak month: September
Records since 2000: 8,446

Vestal Cuckoo Bee

Group: Bees, wasps and ants
Peak month: June
Records since 2000: 8,401

Ballan Wrasse

Group: Fish
Peak month: July
Records since 2000: 8,388

Water Earwort

Group: Liverworts
Peak month: July
Records since 2000: 8,368

Traveller's-joy

Group: Flowering plants
Peak month: August
Records since 2000: 8,332

Straw Dot

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

Silo pallipes

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

Common Cockchafer

Group: Beetles
Peak month: May
Records since 2000: 8,262

Bog Hoverfly

Group: True flies
Peak month: August
Records since 2000: 8,261

Grey Mining Bee

Group: Bees, wasps and ants
Peak month: April
Records since 2000: 8,242