About Earthynature of Britain

Species recorded in Dorset

1,102 species

Dorset — county

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

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

Lustrous Bog-moss

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

Grey Top Shell

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

Hornet Hoverfly

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

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

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

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

Traveller's-joy

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

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

Black Clock

Group: Beetles
Peak month: August
Records since 2000: 8,199

Rotund disc

Group: Molluscs
Peak month: April
Records since 2000: 8,184

Alexanders [Smyrnium olusatrum]

Group: Flowering plants
Peak month: April
Records since 2000: 8,145

Rainbow weed, Spiked loosestrife, Purple-loosestrife

Group: Flowering plants
Peak month: August
Records since 2000: 8,145

Common Tachinid

Group: True flies
Peak month: August
Records since 2000: 8,124

Eriothrix rufomaculatus

Group: True flies
Peak month: July
Records since 2000: 8,117

Queen Anne's Lace

Group: Flowering plants
Peak month: July
Records since 2000: 8,098

Greater Bird's-foot-trefoil

Group: Flowering plants
Peak month: July
Records since 2000: 8,081

Green Tiger Beetle

Group: Beetles
Peak month: May
Records since 2000: 8,058

Bristly Oxtongue

Group: Flowering plants
Peak month: July
Records since 2000: 8,049

Forked ribbons

Group: Seaweeds and algae
Peak month: January
Records since 2000: 8,016

Cow-horn Bog-moss

Group: Mosses
Peak month: July
Records since 2000: 7,999

Common adder

Group: Reptiles
Peak month: April
Records since 2000: 7,996

Oakmoss

Group: Lichens
Peak month: March
Records since 2000: 7,937

Rosulabryum rubens

Group: Mosses
Peak month: March
Records since 2000: 7,932

Brown Rim-lichen

Group: Lichens
Peak month: May
Records since 2000: 7,917

Wood Dock

Group: Flowering plants
Peak month: July
Records since 2000: 7,910

Halesus radiatus

Group: Caddisflies
Peak month: April
Records since 2000: 7,901

Fringed Rosette Lichen

Group: Lichens
Peak month: April
Records since 2000: 7,846

Common Branded Skipper

Group: Butterflies and moths
Peak month: August
Records since 2000: 7,841

Flat Neckera

Group: Mosses
Peak month: March
Records since 2000: 7,833

Mystacides azureus

Group: Caddisflies
Peak month: July
Records since 2000: 7,824

Black Bryony

Group: Flowering plants
Peak month: May
Records since 2000: 7,792