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  • Sea Mouse Aphrodita aculeata Length to 20cm<br />
Unmistakable marine invertebrate. An atypical scaleworm, hardly recognisable as a worm at all. Lives part-buried in sand at extreme low water; sometimes stranded. Adult has oval body, scales hidden by dense coat of bristly hairs; dorsal ones are flattened, lateral ones are iridescent. Widespread, locally common offshore, very occasionally washed up after winter gales.
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  • Common Cuttlefish Sepia officinalis Length to 20cm<br />
Extraordinary mollusc with well-developed eyes, internal ‘shell’ (cuttlebone), and long tentacles. Feeds on other marine invertebrates, notably crabs. Locally common off coasts of S and SW England, and Wales.
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  • Common Cuttlefish Sepia officinalis Length to 20cm<br />
Extraordinary mollusc with well-developed eyes, internal ‘shell’ (cuttlebone), and long tentacles. Feeds on other marine invertebrates, notably crabs. Locally common off coasts of S and SW England, and Wales.
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  • Common Cuttlefish Sepia officinalis Length to 20cm<br />
Extraordinary mollusc with well-developed eyes, internal ‘shell’ (cuttlebone), and long tentacles. Feeds on other marine invertebrates, notably crabs. Locally common off coasts of S and SW England, and Wales.
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  • River Ystwyth, Ceredigion, with well developed shingle banks. Habitat of Arctosa cinerea. Some of the Rivers in Mid and North Wales have well developed shingle banks that support  populations of rare, specially adapted, invertebrates including the large River Bear-Spider Arctosa cinera
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  • Honey Bee - Apis mellifera
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  • Turban Top Shell - Gibbula magus Height to 30mm<br />
Stout and robust shell. Found on lower shore on rocky and mixed substrates. SHELL is rounded overall with 8, ridged whorls; shells are pinkish-brown, patchily suffused with orange, and typically worn and damaged. STATUS Locally common in S and NW; absent from most of E coast.
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  • cluster of tubes on dead coralhead, with a single  juvenile Threespot Damselfish, Stegastes planifons and Bicolor Damselfish, Stegastes partitus in view,bonaire, caribbean
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  • Mouse-eared snail Myosotella myosotis Length to 8mm<br />
Small snail, found on upper reaches of estuaries and just above splash zone on sheltered shores. Usually lives under rotting seaweed and eelgrass debris. SHELL is narrowly oval and pointed at apex. Shell mouth is oval with thickened outer and inner lips, each with 3 or more ‘teeth’. STATUS Widespread and locally common except in N
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  • Conilera cylindracea - a deep water scavenging isopod
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  • Limnephilus sparsus - a caddisfly of woodland streams
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  • Window-winged Sedge - Hagenella clathrata
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  • Mullein Moth - Shargacucullia verbasci
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  • Field Cricket - Gryllus campestris<br />
female
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  • Phaeostigma notata - a snakefly, family Raphidiidae
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  • Hairy Rove Beetle - Creophilus maxillosus
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  • 16.008 (0431)<br />
Yponomeuta sedella
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  • 33.001 (0718)<br />
Ethmia dodecea
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  • 35.011 (0853)<br />
Anacampsis populella
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  • 43.002 (0911)<br />
Scythris grandipennis
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  • Red-belted Clearwing - Synanthedon myopaeformis<br />
52.011 BF379
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  • Figure of Eighty - Tethea ocularis<br />
65.010 BF1654
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  • Grass Eggar - Lasiocampa trifolii<br />
66.006 BF1636<br />
Pale Grass Eggar  -bottom row
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  • 70.065 (1794)<br />
Sharp-angled Carpet - Euphyia unangulata
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  • 70.089 (1754)<br />
Phoenix - Eulithis prunata
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  • 70.144 (1860)<br />
Green Pug - Pasiphila rectangulata<br />
top = typical form<br />
bottom = melanic form
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  • 70.151 (1817)<br />
Foxglove Pug - Eupithecia pulchellata
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  • 70.152 (1855a)<br />
Channel Islands Pug - Eupithecia ultimaria
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  • 70.156 (1852)<br />
Brindled Pug - Eupithecia abbreviata
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  • 70.165 (1845)<br />
Pimpinel Pug - Eupithecia pimpinellata
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  • 70.178 (1847)<br />
Scarce Pug - Eupithecia extensaria
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  • Barred Tooth-striped - Trichopteryx polycommata<br />
70.201 (1880)
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  • 70.215 (1897)<br />
V-moth - Macaria wauaria
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  • 70.223 (1903)<br />
Barred Umber - Plagodis pulveraria
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  • 70.232 (1911)<br />
Large Thorn - Ennomos autumnaria
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  • 70.245 (1663)<br />
March Moth - Alsophila aescularia
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  • 70.263 (1939)<br />
Ringed Carpet - Cleora cinctari
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  • 70.292 (1969)<br />
Grey Scalloped Bar - Dyscia fagaria
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  • 71.025 (1994)<br />
Buff-tip - Phalera bucephala
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  • 72.004 (2480)<br />
Buttoned Snout - Hypena rostralis
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  • 72.047 (2045)<br />
Hoary Footman - Eilema caniola
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  • 72.062 (2482)<br />
White-line Snout - Schrankia taenialis
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  • 73.032 (2425)<br />
Nut-tree Tussock - Colocasia coryli
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  • 73.068 (2245)<br />
Green-brindled Crescent - Allophyes oxyacanthae
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  • 73.074 (2403)<br />
Bordered Straw - Heliothis peltigera
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  • 73.092 (2387)<br />
Mottled Rustic - Caradrina morpheus
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  • 73.098 (2383)<br />
Powdered Rustic - Hoplodrina superst
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  • 73.101 (2380)<br />
Treble Lines - Charanyca trigrammica
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  • 73.109 (2303)<br />
Straw Underwing - Thalpophila matura
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  • 73.120 (2352)<br />
Dusky Sallow - Eremobia ochroleuca
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  • 73.130 (2355)<br />
Dumeril's Rustic - Luperina dumerilii
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  • 73.175 (2338)<br />
Rufous Minor - Oligia versicolor
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  • 73.260 (2149)<br />
Silvery Arches - Polia hepatica
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  • 73.272 (2162)<br />
Glaucous Shears - Papestra biren
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  • 73.316 (2084)<br />
Light Feathered Rustic - Agrotis cinerea
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  • 73.339 (2105)<br />
Dotted Rustic - Rhyacia simulans
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  • 73.355 (2132)<br />
Neglected Rustic - Xestia castanea
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  • 73.364 (2115)<br />
Rosy Marsh Moth - Coenophila subrosea
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  • 74.002 (2076)<br />
Kent Black Arches - Meganola albula
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  • Catsear Mining-bee - Andrena humilis -  male
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  • Bee-fly - Bombylius major
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  • The Snout - Hypena proboscidalis Length 17-19mm. A distinctive moth that rests with its angular wings spread flat, forming a triangle, its long palps projecting as a ‘snout’. Adult has forewings that range from buff to reddish-brown forewings; these are marked dark cross lines. Double-brooded: flies June-August, and again in late September. Larva feeds on Common Nettle. Widespread and common throughout.
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  • Striped Lychnis - Shargacucullia lychnitis
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  • Satyr Pug - Eupithecia satyrata
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  • Purple Thorn Selenia tetralunaria Wingspan 32-38mm. A beautifully marked moth that rests with its wings held at an acute angle or folded above body at rest. Adult has angular, jagged margins to its wings. The undersides of the wings (that seen at rest) are purplish-brown, flushed orange-brown towards the base. Each wing has a white, angular crescent-moon mark. Flies April-May, and sometimes in August as a second brood. Larva feeds on deciduous trees and shrubs. Widespread and fairly common.
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  • Red-tipped Clearwing - Synanthedon formicaeformis. Length 11-14mm. A fly-like, day-flying moth. Adult has mainly black body with red band on abdomen. Wings are mainly clear but note the red tips and red leading edge to forewing. Larva feeds in stems of sallows and willows. Widespread but commonest in southern England.
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  • Astata boops - a species of solitary predatory wasp
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  • Red-banded Sand Wasp - Ammophila sabulosa
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  • Rusty dot Pearl - Udea ferrugalis
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  • Fen Raft Spider - Dolomedes plantarius- spiderling nursery
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  • Southern Hawker - Aeshna cyanea
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  • Keeled Skimmer - Orthetrum coerulrum
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  • Tetragnatha obtusa - female. Most often found spinning its orb web on the foliage of trees on the edges of woodland. It has a dumpier body than most tetragnatha species.
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  • Gibbaranea gibbosa - Female. Cryptic in colour and behaviour but is found frequently in southern Britain on trees and bushes. It is by far the commonest two humped orb web spinner.
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  • Tibellus oblongus - Male. Tibellus species are running crab spiders that are adapted to life in grass tussocks. Their long bodies can lie along leaves and stems so that the spiders are hard to sdetect.  Tibellus oblongus is the commoner of the two species in the UK ocurring in all sorts of open tussocky habitats.
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  • Xysticus lanio - Male. This species of Xysticus crab spider is unusual in that it is found most frequently in the canopy foilage od woodland trees. It is typically a more dark reddish spider than othe Xysticus species
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  • Brimstone Moth - Opisthograptis luteolata
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  • Sun Fly - Helophilus pendulus
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  • Long Hoverfly - Sphaerophoria scripta - female
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  • Buff-tailed Bumblebee - Bombus terrestris - worker on Viper's Bugloss.
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  • Buff-tailed Bumblebee - Bombus terrestris, on Viper's Buglos.
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  • Barbut's Cuckoo Bumblebee - Bombus barbutellus - male on Viper's Bugloss.
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  • Clarke's Mining-bee - Andrena clarkella.  Searching for place to deposit its sallow pollen on which to lay an egg.
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  • Xysticus cristatus - Male. The commonest of the Crab Spiders. The males are much smaller that the females.
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  • Dysdera erythrina - Female. A methodical nocturnal hunter with huge fangs found in natural coastal and heathland habitats and is a little smaller and darker than the almost identical but more common Dydera crocata.
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  • Amaurobius ferox - Female. Our largest lace web spider found near the ground in darker damp habitats under stones and logs in gardens and woodland
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  • Dark Bush-cricket - Pholidoptera griseoaptera
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  • Speckled Yellow - Pseudopanthera macularia
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  • Cymodoce truncata - Cymodoce truncata
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  • Doto coronata - Doto coronata<br />
Sea Slug
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  • Zygiella atrica - Female on orb web.
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  • Purse-Web Spider - Atypus affinis, Atypidae - Female
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  • Oleander Hawk-moth - Daphnis nerii
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  • Puss moth larva Cerura vinula with parsaitoid cocoons of Cotesis affinis
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  • Common Green Caspid Bug - Lygus pratensis.
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  • Common House-fly - Musca domestica
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  • Tawny Mining Bee - Andrena fulva
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  • Lesser Stag Beetle - Dorcus parallelipedus
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  • Beautiful Demoiselle - Calopteryx virgo<br />
male
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  • Laboratory Stick Insect - Carausius  morosus
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