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Insect Species

The following is a list of all Insect species that have been recorded as having occured around all 10 sections of the Emm Brook.

This is not a definitive checklist. The species listed here are those for which we have records on the wildlife database held by FOTEB.

These lists are being constantly updated as new species are identified.

The"Area Seen" column refers to the 10 sections that the Brook has been split into for monitoring purposes (see Wildlife page).

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COMMON NAME	SCIENTIFIC NAME	STATUS	AREA SEEN	FIRST SEEN	LAST SEEN	PHOTO
	Apteryota
Springtails	Apteryota
Ephemoroptera
Mayflies	Ephemoroptera
	Cloeon dipterum	Common Resident	5,10
Dragonflies and Damselflies	Odonata
Banded Demoiselle	Colopteryx splendens	Common Resident	5,8
Beautiful Demoiselle	Colopteryx virgo	Common Resident	5,8
Azure Damselfly	oenagrion puella	Common Resident	5,8
Common Blue Damselfly	Enallagma cyathigerum	Common Resident	5,8
Blue-tailed Damselfly	Ischnura elegans	Common Resident	5,8
Red-eyed Damselfly	Colopteryx splendens	Common Resident	10
Large Red Damselfly	Pyrrhosoma nymphula	Common Resident	10
Southern Hawker	Aeshna cyanea	Common Resident	10
Four-spotted Chaser	Libellua quadrimaculata	Common Resident	10
Broad-bodied Chaser	Libellua depressa	Common Resident	10
Black tailed Skimmer	Orthetrum cancellatum	Common Resident	1
Common Darter	Libellua depressa	Common Resident	10
Ruddy Darter	Sympetrum sanguineum	Common Resident	10
Emperor Dragonfly	Anax imperator	Common Resident	10
Dermaptera	Cricket and Grasshoppers Orthoptera
Meadow Grasshopper	Chorthippus parallelus	Resident	5
Dark Bush-cricket	Pholidopetera griseoaptera	Resident	5
Roesel's Bush Cricket	Colopteryx splendens	Resident	5
Long-winged Cone-head	Chorthippus parallelus	Resident	5			No Photo available
Speckled Bush Cricket	Leptophyes punctatissima	Resident	5
Oak Bush Cricket	Meconema thalassinum	Resident	5
Common Earwig	Forficula auricularia	Resident	5			No Photo available
True Bugs	Hemiptera
	Heteroptera
Forest Bug	Pentatoma rufipes	Common Resident	5
Hawthorn Shield Bug	Acanthosoma haemorrhoidale	Common Resident	5
	Homoptera
	Cercopis vulnerata	Common Resident	5			No Photo available
Lacewings	Neuroptera
Beetles	Coleoptera
Sap Beetles	Nitidulidae
Common Pollen Beetle	Meligethes aenus	Resident	5
Weevils	Curculionoidea
Pine Weevil	Hylobius abietis	Common Resident	5			No Photo available
Rove Beetles	Staphylinidae
	Nicrophorus investigator	Resident	5			No Photo available
Scarabs & Chafers	Scarabaeidae
Cockchafer	Melolontha melolontha	Resident	5			No Photo available
Minotaur Beetle	Typhaeus typhoeus	Resident	5			No Photo available
Stag Beetle	Lucanus cervus	Resident	5			No Photo available
Ladybirds	Coccinellidae
2-spot Ladybird	Adalia 2-punctata	Common Resident	5			No Photo available
7- spot Ladybird	Coccinella-7-punctata	Common Resident	5
10- spot Ladybird	Coccinella-7-punctata	Common Resident	5
Orange Ladybird	Halyzia 16-guttata	Common Resident	5			No Photo available
Harlequin Ladybird	Harmonia axyridis	Common Resident	5
14-spot Ladybird	Propylea 14-punctata	Common Resident	5			No Photo available
True Flies	Diptera
Flesh-fly	Sarcophaga carnaria	Resident	5			No Photo available
Greenbottle	Lucilia caesar	Resident	5			No Photo available
Yellow Dung fly	Scathophaga stercoraria	Resident	5			No Photo available
Crane Flies	Tipulidae
Hover Flies	Syrphidae
	Syrphus ribesii	Resident	5			No Photo available
	Eupeodes lunigeri	Resident	5
	Eupeodes nitens	Resident	5			No Photo available
	Dasysyrphus albostriatus	Resident	5			No Photo available
	Episyrphus balteatus	Resident	5
	Xanthogramma pediquessum	Resident	5			No Photo available
	Volucella bombylans	Resident	5			No Photo available
	Helophilus pendulus	Resident	5			No Photo available
Lacewings	Neuroptera
Caddis Flies	Trichoptera
	Limnephilus lunatus	Resident	5			No Photo available
	Glyphotaelius pellucidus	Resident	5			No Photo available
Bees,Wasps,Ants & their relatives	Hymenoptera
Gall Wasps
Artichoke Gall Gall	Andricus foecundatrix	Common Resident	5
Marble Gall	Andricus kollari	Common Resident	5
Hedgehog Gall	Andricus lucidus	Common Resident	5			No Photo available
Knopper Gall	Andricus quercuscalicis/i>	Common Resident	5			No Photo available
Oak Apple	Biorhiza pallida	Common Resident	5
Common Spangle Gall	Neuroterus quercusbaccarum	Common Resident	5			No Photo available
Robins Pincushion Gall	Diplolepis rosae	Common Resident	8			No Photo available
Social Wasps	Vespidae
Hornet	Vespa Crabo	Common Resident	5
Common Wasp	Vespula vulgaris	Common Resident	5
Bees	Apidae
Leaf-Cutter Bee	Megachile centuncularis	Resident	5
Honey Bee	Apis mellifera	Resident	5
Bumble Bees
Buff-tailed Bumble Bee	Bombus terrestrius	Resident	5
White-tailed Bumble Bee	Bombus lucorum	Resident	5
Early mining Bee	Andrena haemorrhoa	Common Resident	5