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Common Flower Bug

Anthocoris nemorum

6,684Records since 2000
JulyPeak month
116Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan65
Feb135
Mar294
Apr540
May623
Jun851
Jul1,157
Aug922
Sep659
Oct321
Nov123
Dec69

GBIF records by month, 2000–2025 (all years combined).

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Worcestershire England799
2City of Edinburgh Scotland508
3Highland Scotland350
4Warrington England313
5North Yorkshire England256
6Norfolk England202
7Devon England194
8Telford and Wrekin England187
9Cambridgeshire England149
10Stockport England133
11Kent England96
12Cumbria England86
13Cornwall England85
14Nottinghamshire England82
15Surrey England80
4,861 England1,192 Scotland259 Wales136 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 116 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
6,684
Peak month
July
Counties with records
116
Scientific name
Anthocoris nemorum
Group
True bugs
NBN Atlas records since 2000
6,148
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Hemiptera
Family
Anthocoridae
Genus
Anthocoris
Name with authority
Anthocoris nemorum (Linnaeus, 1761)
Described
1761
Contributing datasets
31

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q2013172 · GBIF 2020855