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Grey Field Slug

Deroceras reticulatum

10,855Records since 2000
MayPeak month
121Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan324
Feb510
Mar1,018
Apr1,583
May1,589
Jun1,260
Jul905
Aug775
Sep1,037
Oct967
Nov486
Dec373

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1North Yorkshire England1,785
2Nottinghamshire England641
3Highland Scotland477
4York England383
5East Lothian Scotland365
6Lincolnshire England288
7City of Edinburgh Scotland262
8Scottish Borders Scotland242
9East Riding of Yorkshire England197
10Argyll and Bute Scotland171
11Leeds England163
12Gloucestershire England150
13West Lothian Scotland131
14Dumfries and Galloway Scotland128
15Worcestershire England111
7,379 England2,750 Scotland617 Wales95 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 121 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
10,855
Peak month
May
Counties with records
121
Scientific name
Deroceras reticulatum
Group
Molluscs
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Class
Gastropoda
Order
Stylommatophora
Family
Agriolimacidae
Genus
Deroceras
Name with authority
Deroceras reticulatum (O.F.Müller, 1774)
Described
1774
Contributing datasets
31

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q1502135 · GBIF 5781277