Baal Hill Special Invertebrate Site species list

This is a list of invertebrate species which have been recorded at Baal Hill Special Invertebrate Site. Not all the records included in this list have been verified. The aim of the list is to give recorders an idea of the range of species found at the site. To the best of our knowledge, this list of records is correct, as of November 2019.

Scientific name English name Bees Andrena scotica Chocolate mining bee Bombus lapidarius Red-tailed bumblebee Bombus lucorum agg. Bombus pascuorum Common carder bee Bombus pratorum Early bumblebee Beetles Athous haemorrhoidalis Cantharis nigricans Cantharis pellucida Carabus problematicus Cassidinae sp. Tortoise beetle sp. Chilocorus renipustulatus Kidney-spot ladybird Coccinella septempunctata 7-spot ladybird Leptura quadrifasciata 4-banded longhorn beetle Nicrophorus humator Black sexton beetle Nicrophorus investigator Banded sexton beetle Oiceoptoma thoracicum Red-breasted carrion beetle Rhagium mordax Black-spotted longhorn beetle Rhagonycha fulva Common red soldier beetle Bugs Anthocoris nemorum Common flower bug Calocoris alpestris Campyloneura virgula Elasmostethus interstinctus Birch shieldbug Harpocera thoracica Pentatoma rufipes Forest shieldbug/ Red-legged shieldbug Philaenus spumarius Cuckoo-spit insect/ common froghopper Butterflies Aglais io Peacock Anthocharis cardamines Orange-tip Aphantopus hyperantus Ringlet Lasiommata megera Wall Lycaena phlaeas Small copper Maniola jurtina Meadow brown Pararge aegeria Speckled wood Pieris napi Green-veined white Vanessa atalanta Red admiral Dragonflies and damselflies Pyrrhosoma nymphula Large red damselfly Flies Chloromyia formosa Broad centurion Bibio marci St Mark's fly Bombylius major Dark-edged bee-fly Epistrophe grossulariae Broad-banded Epistrophe Episyrphus balteatus Marmalade hoverfly Eriothrix rufomaculata Eristalis nemorum Stripe-faced dronefly Eristalis pertinax Tapered dronefly Eristalis tenax Common dronefly Helophilus pendulus The footballer Machimus atricapillus Kite-tailed robberfly Melanostoma scalare Chequered hoverfly Portevinia maculata Ramsons hoverfly Rhagio tringarius Marsh snipefly Rhingia campestris Common snout hoverfly Sarcophaga sp. Flesh fly Sericomyia silentis Bog hoverfly Syritta pipiens Thick-thighed hoverfly Syrphus ribesii Humming Syrphus Tachina ursina Volucella pellucens Great pied-hoverfly Grasshoppers Omocestus viridulus Common green grasshopper Harvestmen Leiobunum rotundum European harvestman Mitopus morio Saddleback harvestman Lacewings Chrysoperla carnea Common green lacewing Millipedes Glomeris marginata Pill millipede Tachypodoiulus niger White-legged snake millipede Moths Idaea biselata Small fan-footed wave Adela reaumurella Green longhorn Agriphila straminella Straw-grass veneer Apotomis turbidana White-shouldered marble Argyresthia goedartella Golden argent Cabera pusaria Common white wave Calliteara pudibunda Pale tussock Celypha lacunana Common marble Eana incanana Bluebell shade Petrophora chlorosata Brown silver-line Syndemis musculana Dark-barred tortrix Yponomeuta evonymella Bird cherry ermine Sawflies Cimbex femoratus Birch sawfly Spiders Nuctenea umbratica Walnut orb weaver Amaurobius sp. Laceweb spider sp. Woodlice Oniscus asellus Common shiny woodlouse