European Hornet
- Group
- Bees, wasps and ants
- Peak month
- September
- Records since 2000
- 14,599
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Species recorded in Dorset
1,102 species
Dorset — county
Lesser Bird's-claw Beard-moss
- Group
- Mosses
- Peak month
- March
- Records since 2000
- 14,503
Tutsan
- Group
- Flowering plants
- Peak month
- July
- Records since 2000
- 14,496
Yellow Archangel
- Group
- Flowering plants
- Peak month
- April
- Records since 2000
- 14,460
Speckled Bush Cricket
- Group
- Grasshoppers and crickets
- Peak month
- July
- Records since 2000
- 14,459
Hawthorn Shieldbug
- Group
- True bugs
- Peak month
- September
- Records since 2000
- 14,450
Bruch's Pincushion
- Group
- Mosses
- Peak month
- March
- Records since 2000
- 14,229
22-spot Ladybird
- Group
- Beetles
- Peak month
- August
- Records since 2000
- 14,206
Golden Dung Fly
- Group
- True flies
- Peak month
- June
- Records since 2000
- 14,206
Cinnabar
- Group
- Butterflies and moths
- Peak month
- June
- Records since 2000
- 14,180
Painted Top Shell
- Group
- Molluscs
- Peak month
- June
- Records since 2000
- 14,155
Ladder-backed Hover Fly
- Group
- True flies
- Peak month
- April
- Records since 2000
- 14,120
Bittersweet
- Group
- Flowering plants
- Peak month
- August
- Records since 2000
- 14,056
Yellow-browed Warbler
- Group
- Birds
- Peak month
- October
- Records since 2000
- 13,959
Ring Ouzel
- Group
- Birds
- Peak month
- April
- Records since 2000
- 13,904
European green crab, Shore Crab
- Group
- Crustaceans
- Peak month
- June
- Records since 2000
- 13,886
Common Nightingale
- Group
- Birds
- Peak month
- May
- Records since 2000
- 13,807
Primrose
- Group
- Flowering plants
- Peak month
- April
- Records since 2000
- 13,713
Yellow Iris
- Group
- Flowering plants
- Peak month
- June
- Records since 2000
- 13,607
Silver Sedge
- Group
- Caddisflies
- Peak month
- September
- Records since 2000
- 13,603
Honeysuckle
- Group
- Flowering plants
- Peak month
- May
- Records since 2000
- 13,575
Wood Sandpiper
- Group
- Birds
- Peak month
- August
- Records since 2000
- 13,506
Silver Y
- Group
- Butterflies and moths
- Peak month
- July
- Records since 2000
- 13,462
White-lipped Snail
- Group
- Molluscs
- Peak month
- May
- Records since 2000
- 13,376
Polycentropus flavomaculatus
- Group
- Caddisflies
- Peak month
- May
- Records since 2000
- 13,349
Hydropsyche pellucidula
- Group
- Caddisflies
- Peak month
- September
- Records since 2000
- 13,302
Natterer's Bat
- Group
- Mammals
- Peak month
- February
- Records since 2000
- 13,257
Mouse-tail Moss
- Group
- Mosses
- Peak month
- March
- Records since 2000
- 13,215
Common Pincushion
- Group
- Mosses
- Peak month
- March
- Records since 2000
- 13,176
Horned Grebe
- Group
- Birds
- Peak month
- January
- Records since 2000
- 13,082
Overleaf Pellia
- Group
- Liverworts
- Peak month
- July
- Records since 2000
- 13,066
European Turtle-Dove
- Group
- Birds
- Peak month
- May
- Records since 2000
- 13,049
Cryphaea heteromalla
- Group
- Mosses
- Peak month
- March
- Records since 2000
- 13,047
Creeping Bent
- Group
- Flowering plants
- Peak month
- July
- Records since 2000
- 13,035
Crescent-cup Liverwort
- Group
- Liverworts
- Peak month
- March
- Records since 2000
- 13,008
Soldier fly
- Group
- True flies
- Peak month
- June
- Records since 2000
- 12,979
Common Striated Feather-moss
- Group
- Mosses
- Peak month
- March
- Records since 2000
- 12,901
Red Dead-nettle
- Group
- Flowering plants
- Peak month
- April
- Records since 2000
- 12,869
Flame Shoulder
- Group
- Butterflies and moths
- Peak month
- August
- Records since 2000
- 12,865
Toothed Wrack
- Group
- Seaweeds and algae
- Peak month
- July
- Records since 2000
- 12,824
Common Dog-violet
- Group
- Flowering plants
- Peak month
- April
- Records since 2000
- 12,787
Dark Bush Cricket
- Group
- Grasshoppers and crickets
- Peak month
- August
- Records since 2000
- 12,688
Jack Snipe
- Group
- Birds
- Peak month
- October
- Records since 2000
- 12,579
Fern-leaved Hook-moss
- Group
- Mosses
- Peak month
- March
- Records since 2000
- 12,557
Common long-eared bat
- Group
- Mammals
- Peak month
- June
- Records since 2000
- 12,493
Oxeye Daisy
- Group
- Flowering plants
- Peak month
- June
- Records since 2000
- 12,477
Caspian Gull
- Group
- Birds
- Peak month
- January
- Records since 2000
- 12,452
Noctule Bat
- Group
- Mammals
- Peak month
- July
- Records since 2000
- 12,276