THE ECOLOGY OF PRIMROSE LANE
PLANTS
Black Bryony
Broad Dock
Broadleafed Willow-herb
Bulbous Buttercup
Bush Vetch
Cleavers
Comfrey
Common Sowthistle
Common St Johns Wort
Common Storksbill
Common Vetch
Cow Parsley
Creeping Buttercup
Creeping Cinquefoil
Creeping Thistle
Cuckoo Pint
Cut Leafed Cranesbill
Daisy
Dandelion
Figwort
Fools Parsley
Garlic Mustard
Great Willow-herb
Hedge Bedstraw
Hedge Bindweed
Hedge Woundwort
Hemlock Water Dropwort
Herb Bennett
Herb Robert
Hogweed
Meadow Vetchling
Nipplewort
Pignut
Prickly Sowthistle
Primrose
Ragwort
Rayless Mayweed
Red Campion
Red Clover
Rough Hawkbit
Scentless Mayweed
Self Heal
Silverweed
Small Bindweed
Spear Thistle
Stinging Nettle
White Clover
White Deadnettle
Wild Angelica
Woody Nightshade
Although some of the plants listed
here may be considered as weeds,
they are necessary to many insects as
an integral part of their life cycle.
PLANTS cont.
Blackberry
Dog Rose
Field Rose
Honeysuckle
Travellers Joy
Bracken
Harts Tongue Fern
Male Fern
TREES & BUSHES
Ash
Field Maple
Blackthorn
Hawthorn
Dogwood
Hazel
Elm
Oak
Elderberry
Privet
BUTTERFLIES AND MOTHS
Comma
Gatekeeper
Meadow Brown
Orange Tip
Red Admiral and larvae
Ringlet
Small Tortoishell
Large Skipper
Small Skipper
Green Veined White
Large White
Small White
Cream Spot Tiger Moth
Oak Hook Tip Moth
Riband Wave Moth
Silver Ground Carpet Moth
Silver Y Moth
Yellow Shell Moth
Drinker Moth (larva)
Yellow Tail Tussock Moth (larva)
OTHER INSECTS AND
INVERTEBRATES
Blackand Red Froghopper
Common Froghopper
Capsid Bug
Nettle Leafhopper
Forest Shield Bug
Green Shield Bug
Pied Shield Bug
Dor Beetle
Long Horned Beetle
Green Leaf Beetle
INSECTS AND
INVERTEBRATES cont.
Oedemera Noblis
Soldier Beetle
Wasp Beetle
Harlequin Ladybird
Seven Spot Ladybird
Drone fly
Bluebottle
Greenbottle
Helophilus pendulus hoverfly
Syrphus balteatus hoverfly
Syrphus ribesii hoverfly
IIgneumon Flies - various species
Saw Fly
Scorpion Fly
Horse Fly (Tabanus Bromius)
Honey Bee
Buff Tailed Bumble Bee
Red Tailed Bumble Bee
White Tailed Bumble Bee
Common Sympetrum Dragonfly
Common Aeshna Dragonfly
Southern Aeshna Dragonfly
Beautiful Demoiselle Damselfly
Dark Bush Cricket
Garden Spidert
BIRDS
Blackbird
Blue tit
Buzzard
Chaffinch
Chiff Chaff
Collard Dove
Crow
Dunnock
Goldfinch
Greenfinch
House Sparrow
Jackdaw
Magpie
Robin
Rook
Song Thrush
Sparrow Hawk
Swallow
Swift
Wood Pigeon
Wren
MAMMALS
Badger
Bats recorded flying overhead :Daubenton’s
Lesser Horseshoe
Natterer’s
Noctule
Pipistrelle
Whiskered
This survey was compiled over one
week at the end of June 2014.
Had the survey been conducted over
a longer period of time the list would
have been far greater.