Teignmouth garden

Unkempt (rewilded) garden in south Devon, seven adjacent cats have removed all the local Wood Mice, Slow-worms etc and one even sits by the moth trap playing catch :-(

Birds/Mammals from, rest all within garden. 

Last modified: 

Monday, March 20, 2023 - 23:09
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Latest addition: 

Alpine Swift Mar 2023. Highlights: Moths - Bloxworth Snout, Dark-bordered Pearl, Gem, Horse Chestnut, Indian Meal Moth, Large Tabby, Lesser-spotted Pinion, Mocha, Mullein, Ni, Tissue, Vestal, Flies - Beefly, Hornet & Lesser Hornet Hoverfly, Phytomyza crassiseta, Jaapiella veronicae; Bugs- Cock's-foot Aphid, Aradus depressus, Beosus maritimus; Arachnids - Pink Prowler Oonops domestica, Cellar Spider Psilochorus simoni, Spitting Spider Scytodes thoracica, Opilio canestrinii (harvetsman, 1st for Devon); Fungi - Bay Triangle Coccomyces delta, Celandine Smut Entyloma ficariae; Birds - Black Redstart, Reed Warbler, Avocet, Black Tern, Bonaparte's Gull, Osprey, Spoonbill; Mammals - Hedgehog, Risso's Dolphin; & others - Ringlet, Patchwork Leaf Cutter Megachile centuncularis, Southern Field Cricket, Landhopper Arcitalitrus dorrieni, Ant Woodlouse, the flatworm Australopacifica coxii, a shelled slug Testacella maugei & Wall-rue.

Size: 

0.01hectares

Species total: 

839

Ranking breakdown

Breakdown of species counts by category

Algae: 

2

Lichens: 

2

Fungi other than Lichens, including fungoid organisms: 

25

Bryophytes: 

6

Vascular Plants: 

77

Molluscs: 

16

Annelid worms: 

4

Platyhelminth worms: 

1

Arachnids: 

35

Myriapods: 

1

Crustaceans: 

8

Springtails, proturans and 2-tailed bristletails: 

3

Insects: 3-tailed Bristletails: 

1

Insects: Odonata: 

3

Insects: orthopteroids: 

7

Insects: hemipteroids: 

25

Insects: Hymenoptera: 

22

Insects: Coleoptera: 

23

Insects: Diptera: 

58

Insects: Lepidoptera: butterflies: 

16

Insects: Lepidoptera: moths: 

340

Insects: remaining small orders: 

8

Amphibians: 

2

Birds: 

139

Mammals: 

15