• Conservation Area

One of the richest regions of the farm in terms of biodiversity this particular area is something of a mosaic of habitats, containing a large lake, several ponds, scrub, marshy grassland, broad leaved woodland and unimproved neutral grassland. It is possible, as a result, to see a huge diversity of species each with potentially different requirements in relative close proximity. Thus, it has been termed ‘Conservation Area’.

The photos below demonstrate a few of those habitats mentioned above:

 

Sand banks like this one provide ideal nesting sites for birds such

as the Sand-Martin (Riparia riparia)

The list below contains the species found in the Conservation Area to date:

Common Name Scientific Name
? Adela reaumurella
Peacock Butterfly Inachis io
Speckled Wood Pararge aegeria
Drinker Moth Euthrix potatoria
Common Blue Butterfly Polyommatus icarus
Large Skipper Ochlodes venatus
Red Admiral Vanessa atalanta
Lackey Moth Malacosoma neustria
Mayfly Ephemera danica
Azure Damselfly Coenagrion puella
Blue-Tailed Damselfly Ischnura elegans
Common Blue Damselfly Enallagma cyathigerum
Broad Bodied Libellula Libellula depressa
Beautiful Demoiselle Calopteryx virgo
Emperor Dragonfly Anax imperator
Earwig Forficula auricularia
Water Stick Insect Ranatra linearis
Cuckoo Spit Insect Philaenus spumarius
Great Diving Beetle Dytiscus marginalis
Red Headed Cardinal Beetle Pyrochroa serraticornis
Green Dock Leaf Beetle Gastrophysa viridula
Hogweed Bonking Beetle Soldier Beetle

Rhagonycha fulva Cantharis sp

Scorpion fly Panorpa communis
Green Bottle Yellow Dung Fly Lucilia caesar Scatophaga stercoraria
Tenthredinid Sawfly Macrophya Sp
Tenthredinid Sawfly Tenthredo mesomelas
Meadow Grasshopper Chorthippus parallelus
Water Boatman Lesser Water Boatman Wolf Spider Notonecta glauca Corixa punctata Lycosa saccata
Palmate Newt Triturus helveticus
Common Vole Microtus arvalis
Common Frog Rana temporaria
Otter Lutra lutra
Birdsfoot Trefoil Lotus corniculatus
Bluebell Endymion non scriptum
Brooklime Verbascum beccabunga
Bugle Ajuga reptans
Creeping Buttercup Ranunculus repens
Early Purple Orchis Orchus mascula
Foxglove Digitalis purpurea
Germander Speedwell Veronica chamaedrys
Heath Bedstraw Galium saxatile
Herb Robert Geranium robertianum
Lady's Smock Cardamine pratensis
Lesser Stitchwort Stellaria graminea
Meadow Buttercup Ranunculus acris
Mouse-Ear Chickweed Cerastium vulgatum
Ox-eye Daisy Crysanthemum leucanthemum
Ragged Robin Lychnis flos-cuculi
Rose -Bay Willow Herb Epilobium angustifolium
Spear-leaved Willow Herb Epilobium lanceolatum
Sweet Violet Viola odorata
Water Forget-Me-Not Myosotis scorpoides
Yellow Iris Iris pseudacorus
Common Couch Agropyron repens
Compact Rush Juncus subuliflorus
Creeping Bent Agrostis stolonifera
Perennial Rye Grass Lolium perenne
Reed Canary Grass Phalaris arundinacea
Sheep's Fescue Festuca ovina
Smooth Meadow Grass Poa pratensis
Wood Meadow Grass Poa nemoralis

 

Unidentified Species

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