Flora and fauna at the eco garden

A catalogue of the flora and fauna sighted at the Eco Garden.

Compiled by Marie Volatier and Mike Weston

Bird species

Blackbird Turdus merula

Blackcap Sylvia atricapilla

Blue Tit Parus caeruleus

Carrion Crow Corvus corone

Chaffinch Fringilla coelebs

Collared Dove Streptopelia decaocto

Common Buzzard Buteo buteo

Great Tit Parus major

Goldfinch Carduelis carduelis

Greenfinch Chloris chloris

Great Spotted Woodpecker Dendrocops major

Green Woodpecker Picus viridis

Grey Heron Ardea cinerea

Jackdaw Corvus monedula

Jay Garrulus glandarius

Magpie Pica pica

Mallard Anas platyrhynchos

Moorhen Gallinula chloropus

Oystercatcher Haematopus ostralegus

Pheasant Phasianus colchicus

Ring-necked Parakeet Psittacula krameri

Song Thrush Turdus turdus

Tree Creeper Certhia familiaris

White Wagtail Motacilla alba

Wood Pigeon Columba palumbus

Wren T. troglodytes

Butterflies

Brimstone Gonepteryx rhamni

Comma Polygonia c-album

Common Blue Polyommatus Icarus

Green-veined White Pieris napi

Large White Pieris brassicae

Map Butterfly Araschnia levana

Painted Lady Vanessa cardui

Peacock Aglais io

Red Admiral Vanessa atalanta

Small Copper Lycaena phlaeas

Small Tortoiseshell Aglais urticae

Small White Pieris rapae

Speckled Wood Parage aegeria

Moths

Angle Shades Phlogophora meticulosa

Barred Red Hylaea fasciaria

Barred Straw Gandaritis pyraliata

Barred Yellow Cidaria fulvata

Bird’s Wing Dyptergia scabriuscula

Buttoned Snout Hypena rostralis

Bright-line Brown-eye Lacanobia oleracea

Brimstone Moth Opisthograptis luteolata

Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing Noctua fimbriata

Buff Arches Habrosyne pyritoides

Buff Ermine Spilosoma lutea

Buff-tip Phalera bucephala

Burnished Brass Diachrysia chrysitis

Cabbage Moth Mamestra brassicae

Canary-shouldered Thorn Ennomos alniaria

Chocolate-tip Clostera curtula

Clouded Border Lomaspilis marginata

Clouded Silver Lomographa tenebrata

Common Footman Eilema lurideola

Common Quaker Orthosia cerasi

Common Lutestring Ochropacha duplaris

Common White Wave Cabera pusaria

Copper Underwing Amphipyra pyramidea

Coxcomb Prominent Ptilodon capucina

Dun-bar Cosmia trapezina

Dusky Hook-tip Drepana curvatula

Elephant Hawk-moth Deilephila elpenor

Flame Shoulder Ochropleura plecta

Garden Carpet Xanthorhoe fluctuata

Gold Spot Plusia festucae

Grey Dagger Acronicta psi

Gypsy Moth Lymantria dispar

Heart and Dart Agrotis exclamationis

Ingrailed Clay Diarsia mendica

Iron Prominent Notodonta dromedarius

July Thorn Selena tetralunaria

Large Yellow Underwing Noctua pronuba

Lesser-spotted Pinion Cosmia affinis

Lesser Yellow Underwing Noctua comes

Light Emerald Campaea margaritata

Marbled Green Cryphia muralis

Marbled Minor Oligia strigilis

Mottled Umber Erannis defoliaria

Oak Hook-tip Watsonalla binaria

Oak Processionary Thaumetopoea processionea

Pale Mottled Willow Caradrina clavipalpis

Pale Oak Beauty Hypomecis punctinalis

Pale Tussock Calliteara pudibunda

Peacock Moth Macaria notata

Pebble Hook-tip Drepana falcataria

Peppered Moth Biston betularia

Poplar Hawk-moth Laothoe populi

Purple Clay Diarsia brunnea

Riband Wave Idaea aversata

Rosy Footman Miltochrista miniata

Ruby Tiger Phragmatobia fuliginosa

Satin Lutestring Tetheella fluctuosa

Scalloped Oak Crocallis elinguaria

Scarce Footman Eilema complana

Setaceous Hebrew Character Xestia c-nigrum

Shuttle-shaped Dart Agrotis puta

Silver Barred Deltote bankiana

Silver Y Autographa gamma

Small Angle Shades Euplexia lucipara

Small Magpie Eurrhypara hortulata

Small Square Spot Diarsia rubi

Smoky Wainscot Mythimna impura

Swallow Prominent Pheosia tremula

The Drinker Euthrix potatoria

The Flame Axylia putris

The Shears Hada plebeja

The Snout Hypena proboscidalis

Treble Lines Charanyca trigrammica

Turnip Moth Agrotis segetum

Variegated Golden Tortrix Archips xylosteana

White Ermine Spilosoma lubricipeda

White-pinion Spotted Lomographa bimaculata

Willow Beauty Peribatodes rhomboidaria

Yellow-tail Euproctis similis

Yellow Shell Comptogramma bilineata

Other insects

Blue-tailed Damselfly Ischnura elegans

Brown Hawker Aeshna grandis

Common Darter Sympetrum striolatum

Common Wasp Vespula vulgaris

Great Silver Water Beetle Hydrophilus piceus

Harlequin Ladybird Harmonia axyridis

Lupin Aphid Macrosiphum albifrons

Scorpion Fly Panorpa communis

Southern Hawker Aeshna cyanea

Amphibians

Common Frog Rana temporaria

Common Toad Bufo bufo

Smooth Newt Triturus vulgaris

Mammals

Hare Lepus europaeus

Mole Talpa europaea

Hedgehog Erinaceus europaeus