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Field Damsel Bug

Nabis ferus

964Records since 2000
SeptemberPeak month
65Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan17
Feb17
Mar27
Apr56
May32
Jun43
Jul145
Aug175
Sep182
Oct93
Nov26
Dec15

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Worcestershire England138
2Norfolk England98
3Cambridgeshire England60
4Suffolk England52
5Devon England52
6Oxfordshire England35
7East Riding of Yorkshire England28
8Gloucestershire England28
9Lincolnshire England14
10Cornwall England13
11Essex England13
12Telford and Wrekin England12
13Nottinghamshire England11
14Dorset England10
15North Yorkshire England10
857 England11 Scotland31 Wales

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 65 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
964
Peak month
September
Counties with records
65
Scientific name
Nabis ferus
Group
True bugs
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Hemiptera
Family
Nabidae
Genus
Nabis
Name with authority
Nabis ferus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Described
1758
Contributing datasets
17

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q10593867 · GBIF 2021010