Prickly Lettuce
- Group
- Flowering plants
- Peak month
- July
- Records since 2000
- 2,470
Species recorded in Essex
1,113 species
Essex — county
Dark-footed harp ground beetle
- Group
- Beetles
- Peak month
- August
- Records since 2000
- 2,462
Kohuhu
- Group
- Flowering plants
- Peak month
- April
- Records since 2000
- 2,461
Soapwort
- Group
- Flowering plants
- Peak month
- August
- Records since 2000
- 2,459
Velvet Feather-moss
- Group
- Mosses
- Peak month
- March
- Records since 2000
- 2,430
Trivial plant bug
- Group
- True bugs
- Peak month
- June
- Records since 2000
- 2,429
Shaded Broad-bar
- Group
- Butterflies and moths
- Peak month
- July
- Records since 2000
- 2,423
Great Green Bush Cricket
- Group
- Grasshoppers and crickets
- Peak month
- August
- Records since 2000
- 2,380
Short-winged Conehead
- Group
- Grasshoppers and crickets
- Peak month
- August
- Records since 2000
- 2,376
Hairy St John's-wort
- Group
- Flowering plants
- Peak month
- June
- Records since 2000
- 2,369
Hoary Cress
- Group
- Flowering plants
- Peak month
- May
- Records since 2000
- 2,329
Handsome plant bug
- Group
- True bugs
- Peak month
- May
- Records since 2000
- 2,323
Annual Mercury
- Group
- Flowering plants
- Peak month
- October
- Records since 2000
- 2,316
Face Fly
- Group
- True flies
- Peak month
- July
- Records since 2000
- 2,314
Bedeguar Gall Causer
- Group
- Bees, wasps and ants
- Peak month
- August
- Records since 2000
- 2,311
Great Forget-me-not
- Group
- Flowering plants
- Peak month
- May
- Records since 2000
- 2,308
Four-spot Ladybird [Harmonia quadripunctata]
- Group
- Beetles
- Peak month
- May
- Records since 2000
- 2,301
Great Horsetail
- Group
- Ferns and horsetails
- Peak month
- May
- Records since 2000
- 2,294
11-spot Ladybird
- Group
- Beetles
- Peak month
- July
- Records since 2000
- 2,256
Climbing Corydalis
- Group
- Flowering plants
- Peak month
- May
- Records since 2000
- 2,256
Sea Arrowgrass
- Group
- Flowering plants
- Peak month
- October
- Records since 2000
- 2,248
White Clover Seed Weevil
- Group
- Beetles
- Peak month
- May
- Records since 2000
- 2,207
Three-nerved Sandwort
- Group
- Flowering plants
- Peak month
- May
- Records since 2000
- 2,205
Poecilus cupreus
- Group
- Beetles
- Peak month
- April
- Records since 2000
- 2,156
Butcher's-broom
- Group
- Flowering plants
- Peak month
- April
- Records since 2000
- 2,140
Symplecta stictica
- Group
- True flies
- Peak month
- June
- Records since 2000
- 2,131
Bembidion lunulatum
- Group
- Beetles
- Peak month
- June
- Records since 2000
- 2,118
Eurasian Dotterel
- Group
- Birds
- Peak month
- May
- Records since 2000
- 2,076
Roach
- Group
- Fish
- Peak month
- August
- Records since 2000
- 2,073
Japanese spindletree
- Group
- Flowering plants
- Peak month
- July
- Records since 2000
- 2,071
European dark harp ground beetle
- Group
- Beetles
- Peak month
- July
- Records since 2000
- 2,069
Syntomus foveatus
- Group
- Beetles
- Peak month
- June
- Records since 2000
- 2,044
Alfalfa
- Group
- Flowering plants
- Peak month
- July
- Records since 2000
- 2,042
Southern Oak Bush-cricket
- Group
- Grasshoppers and crickets
- Peak month
- August
- Records since 2000
- 2,035
Annual Sea-blite
- Group
- Flowering plants
- Peak month
- October
- Records since 2000
- 2,027
Damsel ant bug
- Group
- True bugs
- Peak month
- July
- Records since 2000
- 2,023
Silk-Button Spangle Gall Wasp
- Group
- Bees, wasps and ants
- Peak month
- September
- Records since 2000
- 2,023
Goat's-rue
- Group
- Flowering plants
- Peak month
- July
- Records since 2000
- 2,010
Bertoloni's timothy
- Group
- Flowering plants
- Peak month
- July
- Records since 2000
- 2,007
Clustered Dock
- Group
- Flowering plants
- Peak month
- July
- Records since 2000
- 2,002
Red-necked Phalarope
- Group
- Birds
- Peak month
- September
- Records since 2000
- 1,950
Southern Migrant Hawker
- Group
- Dragonflies and damselflies
- Peak month
- July
- Records since 2000
- 1,948
Red-breasted Goose
- Group
- Birds
- Peak month
- February
- Records since 2000
- 1,944
Smooth Tare
- Group
- Flowering plants
- Peak month
- June
- Records since 2000
- 1,928
Curved Silk-moss
- Group
- Mosses
- Peak month
- March
- Records since 2000
- 1,925
Procumbent Yellow-sorrel
- Group
- Flowering plants
- Peak month
- July
- Records since 2000
- 1,921
Cortinicara gibbosa
- Group
- Beetles
- Peak month
- May
- Records since 2000
- 1,901
Fennel
- Group
- Flowering plants
- Peak month
- July
- Records since 2000
- 1,899