This is a copy of the list that hangs in the Bird Hide at Ballachurry Reserve, recording my own observations. It has just been updated to show 2015 and 2016 to date. I'll put the list back in the hide once re-furbishment is complete.
Ballachurry Wetlands
Reserve
Seen at or from reserve since 2010. Except where stated these are personal observations only, other
people may have seen different things.
Unidentified species have been
photographed and ID is on-going.
AMPHIBIANS: Frogs
& copious amounts of frogspawn
BATS: Pippistrelles
and Little Pippistrelles recorded by Manx Bat Group in adjacent orchard
(Bat Walks 2015/16)
Daubenton’s Bat ( water bat) flying
over water in daylight 31st October 2013
BEES:– various unidentified bumblebees (possibly including
white/buff tailed and carder)
honey bees
wild
bees nest in tree on adjacent land, visible from Reserve.
BEETLES & BUGS:
LADYBIRDS: ladybird eggs found
on nettles ; 7-spot larvae; Harlequin pupa
10 spot ladybirds (Just one, Chequered form, to date 2016.
None 2015. Total reported for 2014 = 18)
11 spot ladybirds) (None to date 2016. None
2015. Total reported for 2014 = 4;)
2 spot ladybird ( 3 reported to date 2016. Total
reported for 2015 =1; 2014 = 35)
7 spot ladybirds. ( 26
reported to date 2016. Total reported for 2015 = 64) 2014 = 197. 2013 = 77 )
Harlequin spectabilis (1 in 2015)
Harlequin succinea ( 1 in 2015)
Larch (First
record 2016)
Possible
Rhyzobizius Litura ( 2011)
Grand total
reported 2015 67 ladybirds (2014 = 254
ladybirds) (2016 on-going 30 to date)
SHIELDBUGS
Forest Bug
Gorse
Shieldbugs + eggs + nymphs ( various
instars)
Hawthorn Bug
+ nymphs ( various instars)
Green
shieldbugs + nymphs (various instars)
Sloe Bug ( aka Hairy
Shieldbug)
OTHER
BUGS:
Common Green
Capsid Bug
Common Nettle
Caspid bugs
Licoris tripustulatus Bug
Marsh Damsel Bug
Unidentified
green & brown Capsid bugs
Unidentified Capsid bug on stinking iris
Unidentified
Capsid bug
OTHER BEETLES:
2 species unidentified Weevils
Chrysomelid
beetles (chrysolina?)
Common Burying Beetle
Devil’s
coach horse beetle eating caterpillar
Flea beetle damage on daffs
Large
black unidentified beetle, red legs
Leaf Beetle (Oulema
malanopa)
Small unidentified bright orange
beetle
Smaller unidentified bronze beetle
Soldier
beetles
Tortoise beetle (cassida rubiginosa + nymphs
Unidentified
large black beetle
Unidentified
tiny black beetles on nettles
Unidentified
black ground beetle
Unidentified bronze beetle
Unidentified gingery brown beetle
Unidentified
green beetle
Unidentified
large green beetle under carpet square
Unidentified
long beetle
Unidentified
orange beetles on thistle
Unidentified
Rove beetle
Very small irridescent green beetle on rush
Very small
unidentified brown beetles under carpet squares
Very small
unidentified green beetles
BIRDS: Birds
in italics seen by Manx Ornithological Society Committee members , but not by myself
Blackbird
Blackcap
Blue
tit
Carrion/Hooded Crow hybrid
Chaffinch
Chiffchaff
Chough ( flying over)
Coal Tit
Collared Dove
Curlew
Domestic white hen ( from next
door)
Duck – white farmyard variety (
flying over)
Dunnock
Fieldfare
Goldcrest
Goldfinch
Grasshopper Warbler
Great Tit
Great
Black-backed gull ( flying over)
Greenfinch
Greenfinch
Grey Heron
Grey Wagtail
Hen Harrier
Herring Gulls
Herring Gulls
Hooded
Crow
House Martins
House Sparrow
Hybrid
Duck
Jackdaw
Kestrel (flying over)
Lapwing (flying over)
Lesser Redpoll
Linnet
Long Tailed Tit
Magpie
Mallards
Meadow Pipit
Mistle Thrush
Moorhens
Mute
Swan
Peacock, Peahen, peachicks (from
house next door)
Peregrine falcon
Pheasant
Pied Wagtail
Raven ( flying over)
Raven ( flying over)
Redwing
Reed Bunting
Robin
Rook
Sand Martin
Sedge Warbler
Siskin
Snipe
Song Thrush
Sparrowhawk
Starling
Swallow
Swift
Teal
Tree Creeper
Water Rail
Whimbrel
White
Wagtail
Whitethroat
Willow Warbler
Woodpecker - Great spotted
Wood Pigeon
Wren
(68 species to date)
BUTTERFLIES:
Clouded Yellow 2011
Common Blue
Green Veined White
Large White
Meadow Brown
Orange Tip
Painted Lady
Peacock
Red Admiral
Small Copper
Small Heath
Small Tortoiseshell
Small White
Speckled Wood
Wall Brown
15 species to date
(out of a possible 19. Those not seen are Holly Blue, Grayling, Comma
& Dark Green Fritillary. There
is a slightly controversial number 20 –
Brimstone)
DRAGONFLIES/DAMSELFLIES:
Large
Red Damselfly m&f
Black
Darter Dragonfly
Blue
tailed damselfly
Common
Blue damselfly m&f
Common
Darter Dragonfly m&f
Unidentified
brown dragonfly over pond
Some
larger blue unidentified dragonflies over the water.
MOTHS: ( mostly identified
from trapping in 2015 /16 by Ian Scott, Louise Samson and Duncan Bridges)
Agapeta hamana
Angleshades
Beautiful Golden Y
Beautiful plume
Bee moth
Bright line brown eye
Brimstone moth
Brown house moth
Brussels lace
Buff ermine
Canary Shouldered
Thorn
Clay
Clouded border
Common carpet
Common emerald
Common footman
Common rustic
Common wainscot
Coxcomb prominent
Crescent dart
Dark Arches
Flame
Carpet
Flounced
Rustic
Foxglove pug
Ingrailed clay
Iron prominent
July highflyer
Large Yellow
Underwing
Least
yellow underwing
Lesser broad bordered yellow underwing
Lesser yellow
underwing
Light Brown Apple
Moth
Light emerald
Mother of pearl
Mottled beauty
Peppered moth
Pink Barred
Sallow
Plain Golden Y
Riband wave
Rivulet
Rosy
Rustic
Ruby tiger
Rush veneer
Scalloped Oak
Shaded broad-bar
Silver
ground carpet moth
Silver Y
Six spotted
Burnet moth
Small fan-footed wave
Small Square
Spot
Small
Wainscott
Square-spot rustic
Swallow-tailed moth
True lovers knot
Udea
lutealis
Unidentified
micromoths
CATERPILLARS: (moth caterpillars indicate that
species also found on reserve)
Bright
green caterpillar on dock flower
Brightly
striped caterpillars on Willow & Common Valerian
Brown
Hairy Caterpillar;
Buff-tip
Moth caterpillars on Willow
Depressaria
daucella Moth caterpillars on Hogweed
& Hemlock Water Dropwort
Fox
Moth Caterpillar
Ginger
coloured caterpillar
Green
caterpillar on discarded poop scoop bag
Orange
Tip Butterfly caterpillars on Garlic Mustard
Orchard
Ermine Moth caterpillars on Blackthorn
Poplar
Hawkmoth caterpillar on Willow
Red
|Admiral Caterpillars on nettles
Small
green caterpillar on hide door
Small
Tortoiseshell Caterpillars on nettles
Unidentified
green caterpillar being eaten by beetle
Unidentified
sawfly caterpillars on willow
Unidentified
caterpillars on Garlic Mustard (possibly Green Veined White butterfly?)
PLANTS & FLOWERS: (not comprehensive list)
Alder catkins
Angelica
Ash
Archangel- yellow
Blackberry
Blackthorn blossom
Bluebells (Spanish) both blue and white
Bracken
Brooklime
Burdock
Buttercups - meadow and creeping
Cats ear
Campion- red
Celandine lesser
Cherry Ornamental ( memorial tree)
Chickweed
Clover -red
Convolvulus
Dandelions
Daffodils -cultivated varieties
Daisies- lawn
Docks
Elderberry
Ferns -Harts tongue
-Common polypody
Flowering currant (originally planted
for bees on site)
Forget-me-nots - water
Fuchsia
Garlic Mustard (introduced 2015)
Gorse
Groundsel
Hawthorn
Hawkweed
Hazel
Hedge Mustard Sisymbrium officinale
Hemlock water dropwort
Hemp-Agrimony (introduced 2015)
Hogweed
Holly saplings
Horsetail
Iris -
yellow and purple
Iris – stinking
Ivy
Knapweed
Ladysmock
Loosestrife -
purple
Marsh marigolds
Marsh thistle
Marsh Woundwort
Meadowsweet
Meadow vetchling
Mouse ear - sticky
Muscari
Nettles
Oak saplings
Oxalis
Ox-eye daisy
Plantain - greater
Poppy- opium?
Primroses
Palm- fan ( removed by Work
Party as inappropriate)
Ragged Robin
Ragwort ( cushag)
Raspberry canes
Redshank
Rowan
Rushes - various
Rue – wall
Scarlet Pimpernel
Self Heal (introduced 2016)
Sneezewort
Snowdrops
Snowflake
Sorrel
Sow thistle
Speedwell - thyme leaved
Spleenwort - Maidenhair
Stitchwort
Sycamore
(over-hanging from orchard)
Thistle - spear
- marsh
Tormentil
Trefoil - greater
- lesser
Valerian
- common
Veronica-
herbacious, garden escape
Vetch
– tufted
- common
Water
lily- native yellow?
Wild
roses- various
Willow
Willowherb- great
GRASSES, RUSHES ETC. (kindly
identified by Veryan Conn)
Sweet
Vernal Grass
Yorkshire
Fog
Cocksfoot
Meadow
Foxtail
Perennial
Rye Grass
Rough
Meadow Grass
Jointed
( or Sharp Flowered ) Rush
SPIDERS, HARVESTMEN
AND MITES:
Araneus diadematus Common
Cross/ garden spiders –
Enoplognatha Spider ( I think the common name is Comb-footed
spider)
Harvest mite?
Larinoides cornutus
Metallina probably segmetata
Mitopus
morio; and Leioburnum ( probably. Rotundum ) Harvestmen
Nemastoma bimaculatum Harvestman
Numerous “money spiders” ( Linyphiidae)
TinySpider on noticeboard
Tiny brown spider in rolled
willow leaf
Orb
web spiders on nettles ( Zygiella?)
Pisaura
mirabilis ( Nursery Web spider)
Salticus Jumping Spider
Tetragnatha
spider probably extensa
Tegenaria gigantean Wolf
spider in hide?
Unidentified spider in cocoon
unidentified crab spider
Unidentified small green
spiders on nettles;
Unidentified small red spider in hide ( spider
mite?)
Walckenaera sp. Money spider
Wolf spiders in
grass, small. ( pardosa species)
Xysticus probably cristatus –
Crab spider
Zygiella probably x-notata
on hide shutters
INVERTEBRATES, INSECTS ETC:
Ants
– unidentified black & red
Aphids
– various, including campion,
brachycaudus klugkisti, black on thistles
Great Willow Aphids,
Tuberolachnus salignus 2014 (not seen
since)
Common
Earwig
Hoverflies:-– various unidentified
- Rhingia
campestris
- Scaeva
pyrastri
-Episyrphus
baleatus ( Marmalade Fly)
“Footballer”
Helophilus Hoverfly
Leucozoma
lucorum?
Myathropa
florea “Batman” Hoverfly
Eristalis
pertinax Hoverfly
Other
flies:
“
House” flies
“Green bottle” flies
2 x
types of very small unidentified fly
Caddis
fly , unidentified plain brown 2012
Calliphora sp. Fly
Calliphorid
Pollenia sp
Chrysotus sp. ( Doli) – a tiny fly
with pink wings
Crane flies various,
including Folded Wing Crane Fly (Ptychoptera sp,)
Tipula paludosa or oeracea
Fruit
flies - Tephritis bardenae on burdock + Similar but non burdock fly
Horse fly
Moth
flies ( Pericoma sp.)
Muscid or Anthomylid sp.
flies
Noon Flies
– Mesembrina meridian ( muscid)
Soldier fly - Sargus sp. ( Stratiomyid) - a small fly with big blue eyes
St. Marks Flies
Tachina grossa parasitic fly
Unidentified
black flies on sycamore leaves
Unidentified irridescent flies
Unidentified
wasps/flies
Very small unidentified flies ( or moths?) on
dandelion
Xyphosia
miliaria fly?
Yellow Dung flies, (Scathophaga stercoraria?)
Grasshoppers: Field
Grasshoppers
Millepedes- pill
white-legged snake
flat backed – Polydesmus angustus
Various: lace-wing
Leaf
hopper – brown
- cuckoo spit leaf hopppers
Midges & gnats
Woodlice in hide;
Water Creatures
Caddis fly larvae probably agapetus
Hydropsyche or
rhyacophilia caddis fly larvae
pond skaters
Pond Snails
Ribbon leeches +
egg sacks
water boatman x 2 species
gammarus pulex, fresh water shrimp?
water
crickets - Velia capria
Water Hog Louse
Wasps – common garden
signs of gall wasp on oak
unidentified parasitic wasps
Worms: Unidentified earthworm
Unidentified white worm
Kontikia ventrolineata ? (
alien flatworm? Under investigation)
Brandling worms Eisenia
fetida
MAMMALS: Various Domestic Cats;
rat; rabbit; Pygmy shrew; Hedgehog
MOLLUSCS:
Black slug
arion ater?
Brown slug
arion ater?
Common hairy snail Trochylus hispidus
Dark lipped banded snail
Garlic Snail (blue bodied) Oxychilus alliarius
Large brown Garden snails – cornu aspersum
Plain yellow Snail Cepaea sp.?
Unidentified small slugs & snails
White lipped Banded Snail
MISCELLANEOUS:
Artichoke
galls (Andricus fecundator) on oak saplings
Unidentified
lichen on orchard tree branches, memorial cherry tree and on bridge rails
White
lichen on floor of hide
Unidentified
moss on concrete bridge near entrance
Various
unidentified pupae on vegetation
Fungus
Alder
Tongue galls caused by fungal pathogen, Taphrina alni
Auricularia
auricularia-judae - Jelly/ jew’s ear
fungus
Coral
spot on tree stake?
Psilocybe
semilanceata
Naucoria
bohemica
Mycena
( pura?)
Panaeolus
semiovatus? (egg head mottlegill)
(possibly)
coprinus toadstools
King
Alfred Cakes ( in stream, washed down)
Woodchip
fungus being ID’d.
With many thanks to
everyone who helps with ID.including, Veryan Conn, Steve Crellin, Garry Curtis,
Dawn Dickens, Andree Dubbeldam, Kate Hawkins, Neil Morris, Helen Roy, Louise
Samson, Ian Scott, Richard Selman, & Joe & Tristan @ British Bugs.
List will be updated
at the end of the year.
