Author: Duncan Westlake
These are lists of invertebrate species that have been recorded recently in the area; mostly on Southrepps’ five commons. They are from groups very much in need of proper surveying, and so these lists are far from comprehensive!
We always want more records, so if you would like to tell us of something you have found in our area, please contact us, either by commenting on this page from the ‘Leave a Reply’ section or by using the form at the main Nature Sightings page. Please tell us what you found, as well as when and where. Thank you!
The location shown for each species is usually where it was most recently recorded. The years column shows the first and most recent times; it is not necessarily the case that any were found in the intervening years! All the photographs have been taken in Southrepps.
| SPECIES COMMON NAME | Years seen |
| Bees | |
| Early bumblebee | 2024 |
| Ivy bee | 2024 |
| Red-tailed bumble bee | 2022 |
| White-tailed bumblebee | 2023 |
| Beetles | |
| Common red soldier beetle Pit Common | 2023 |
| Common sexton beetle Garden adjacent Common | 2024 |
| Glow worm | 2020 2024 |
| Leaf beetle Pit Common | 2023 |
| Swollen-thighed beetle | 2023 |
| Bugs | |
| Juniper shieldbug | 2025 |
| Parent Bug Pit Common | 2019 |
| Pond skaters | 2023 |
| Woundwort Shieldbug Pit Common | 2019 |
| Corizus hyoscyami Pit Common | 2019 |
| Rhopalus subrufus Pit Common | 2019 |
| Liocorus tripustulatus Pit Common | 2019 |
| Deraeocoris ruber (red & black forms) Pit Common | 2019 |
| Dragonflies and Damselflies | |
| Banded Demoiselle Southrepps Common | 2014 2024 |
| Black-tailed skimmer Southrepps Common | 2021 |
| Broad-bodied Chaser Southrepps Common | 2013 2024 |
| Brown hawker Southrepps Common | 2022 |
| Common Blue Damselfly Southrepps Common | 2012 |
| Common Darter Southrepps Common | 2013 2025 |
| Emperor Southrepps Common | 2024 |
| Large Red Damselfly Southrepps Common | 2013 |
| Migrant Hawker Southrepps Common | 2016 |
| Ruddy Darter Southrepps Common | 2012 2020 |
| Southern Hawker Southrepps Common | 2014 2025 |
| Fish | |
| Stickleback | |
| Flies | |
| Ensign Fly Pit Common | |
| Hornet Mimic Hoverfly | 2018 |
| Hoverfly | |
| Hoverfly | |
| Hoverfly Pit Common | |
| Hoverfly Pit Common | 2019 |
| Kite-tailed Robberfly Pit Common | 2019 |
| Scorpion Fly Pit Common & Garden adjacent Common | 2019 2023 |
| Thick-headed Fly Pit Common | 2019 |
| Grasshoppers and Crickets | |
| Long-winged conehead Garden adjacent Common | 2025 |
| Meadow grasshopper Southrepps Common | 2011 |
| Roesel’s bush-cricket Garden adjacent Common | 2025 |
| Molluscs | |
| White-lipped snail | 2020 |
| Shield bugs | |
| Green Shieldbug Pit Common | 2019 |
| Slender-horned Leatherbug | 2021 |
| Spiders | |
| Four spot orb weaver Southrepps Common | 2024 |
| Wasp spider Southrepps Common | 2023 |
| Wasps | |
| Giant Wood Wasp Warren Wood | 2015 |
| Hornet | 2020 2025 |
| Sabre wasp Garden adjacent Common | 2025 |
