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Identifying animals on our land
Ants, Bees and Wasps Beetles Bugs Butterflies Crickets and Grasshoppers Crustaceans Flies
Mayflies, Dragonflies and Damselflies Moths Spiders Amphibians and Reptiles Birds Mammals
Beetles - 4131 UK species
Seen and ID-ed: 15
Family: Cantharidae - Soldier Beetles (41 species)
Common Red Soldier Beetle - Rhagonycha fulva
A fair few seen over a couple of weeks in Oak and Goat fields mainly
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Photographed and first ID 15th July 2024

Family: Cerambycidae - Longhorn Beetles (73 species)
Black and Yellow Longhorn - Rutpela maculata
Seen once in Gathering area by bottom fence
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Photographed and first ID 22nd July 2024
Wasp Beetle - Clytus arietis
Seen once in 4-Fruit tree area
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Photographed and first ID 22nd July 2024
Family: Chrysomelidae - Leaf Beetles (279 species)
Alder Bettle - Agelastica alni
Seen on a young alder in garden
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Photographed and first ID 27th April 2025
Thistle Tortoise Bettle - Cassida rubiginosa
Seen once in Garden by pump house
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Photographed and first ID 26th August 2024
Family: Coccinellidae - Ladybirds (55 species)
7-spot Ladyburd - Coccinella septempunctata
Seen occassionally in garden and round land
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Photographed and first ID 26th August 2024
14-spot Ladyburd - Propylea quattuordecimpunctata
Seen very rarely
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Photographed and first ID 20th September 2024
Family: Curculionidae - True Weevils (494 species)
Weevil - Cionus tuberculosus
Seen once on decking
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Photographed and first ID 29th August 2024

Family: Geotrupidae - Dor beetles (8 species)
Dor Beetle - Melolontha melolontha
Caught in moth trap
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Photographed and first ID 30th August 2024
 
Family: Helophoridae - Helophorod Water Beetles (20 species)
Helophoris aequalis (best guess)
First beetle to colonise ponds, very common
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Photographed and first ID 23rd May 2025
 
Family: Pyrochroidae - Cardinal Beetles (3 species)
Pyrochroa serraticornis
Several seen in Yeti's gate area
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Photographed and first ID 29th May 2025
 
Family: Scarbacacidae - Scarab beetles (84 species)
Cockchafer (May Bug) - Melolontha melolontha
A few seen in May, not as many as usual round Dog Room
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Photographed and first ID 22nd May 2024
 
Family: Silphidae - Carrion or Burying (Sexton) Beetles (21 species)
Nicrophorus investigator
Caught in moth trap
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Photographed and first ID 30th August 2024
Black Sexton Beetle - Nicrophorus humator
Found several at bottom of dog dustbin
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Photographed and first ID 30th July 2024
Family: Staphylinidae - Rove Beetles (1129 species)
Devil's coach horse - Devil's coach horse
On fence post by Yeti's Gate - seen once
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Photographed and first ID 24th October 2024
 
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