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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 (3 species)
Common Red Soldier Beetle - Rhagonycha fulva
Very common
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Photographed and first ID 15th July 2024
Rustic Sailor Beetle - Cantharis rustica
Seen once so far
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Photographed and first ID 4th June 2025
Soldier Beetle - Cantharis flavilabris
Seen occassionally
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Photographed and first ID 15th June 2025
 
Family: Cerambycidae - Longhorn Beetles (2 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 (3 species)
Alder Bettle - Agelastica alni
Seen a few times on young alders 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
Willow Flea Bettle - Crepidodera aurata
Seen once bottom of Oak feld
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Photographed and first ID 16th June 2025
 
Family: Coccinellidae - Ladybirds (2 species)
7-spot Ladyburd - Coccinella septempunctata
See a few individuals in garden and round land
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Photographed and first ID 26th August 2024
14-spot Ladyburd - Propylea quattuordecimpunctata
Seen very rarely, a pale version in June 25
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Photographed and first ID 20th September 2024
Family: Curculionidae - True Weevils (2 species)
Weevil - Cionus tuberculosus
Seen occasionally
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Photographed and first ID 29th August 2024
Dark Vine Weevil - Otiorhynchus sulcatus
Seen a lot in strawberry bed
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Photographed and first ID 17th June 2025
Family: Dytiscidae - Diving beetles (1 species)
Great diving beetle (larva) - Dytiscus marginalis
Common in Poultry pond and others from late spring
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Photographed and first ID 2nd June 2023

Family: Geotrupidae - Dor beetles (1 species)
Dor Beetle - Melolontha melolontha
Caught in moth trap
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Photographed and first ID 30th August 2024
 
Family: Gyrindae - Whirligig beetles (1 species)
Whirligig Beetle - Gyrinus substriatus
On most ponds from late spring 2024
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Photographed and first ID 13th June 2025
 
Family: Helophoridae - Helophorod Water Beetles (1 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 (1 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 (1 species)
Cockchafer (May Bug) - Melolontha melolontha
A few seen in May each year
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Photographed and first ID 22nd May 2024
 
Family: Silphidae - Carrion or Burying (Sexton) Beetles (2 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 (1 species)
Devil's coach horse - Ocypus olens
On fence post by Yeti's Gate - seen once
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Photographed and first ID 24th October 2024
 
Family: Tenebrioidae - Darkling Beetles (1 species)
Darkling beetle - Lagria hirita
Seen once on vegetation in Swallow field
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Photographed and first ID 29th June 2025
 
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