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Black-backed meadow ant (
Formica pratensis
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This is a large ‘wood ant’, and resembles the more common southern wood ant Formica rufa. The thorax shows some red colouration, b...
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Glutinous snail (
Myxas glutinosa
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The glutinous snail has a translucent glossy shell, which is very fragile and amber in colour. The aperture (opening) is relativel...
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Nowell's limestone moss (
Zygodon gracilis
)
This rare moss is a brownish-green in colour and forms dense cushions. It is named after John Nowell, an amateur bryologist, who f...
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Red-tipped cudweed (
Filago lutescens
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Red-tipped cudweed is an upright plant, with a grey-green, branched stem. The leaves are spear-shaped and have fine yellowish hair...
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Red-barbed ant (
Formica rufibarbis
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The red-barbed ant is classified as Endangered in Great Britain. Winged reproductive females and queens are generally red or reddi...
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Cornflower (
Centaurea cyanus
)
The attractive flowers of the cornflower are a bright celebratory blue, distinctive enough to have given its name to a colour. The...
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Black bog ant (
Formica candida
)
This rare, medium-sized ant is black and shiny...
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Marsh earwort (
Jamesoniella undulifolia
)
This species is one of the world’s rarest bryophytes. Liverworts vary in appearance, from those with filmy, ribbon-like bodies, to...
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Natterjack toad (
Bufo calamita
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The chief distinguishing feature of the natterjack is the yellow stripe down its back. Shorter hind legs also tell the natterjack ...
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Ground beetle (
Pterostichus aterrimus
)
Pterostichus aterrimus is a large and shiny black ground beetle that has curved edges to the pronotum(2). The wing cases (elytra) ...
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Bearded tooth (
Hericium erinaceum
)
The bearded tooth fungus is also known as the tree hedgehog fungus. It belongs to the family of tooth fungi, which are rare in Bri...
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Reindeer lichen (
Cladonia mediterranea
)
This member of the Cladonia (reindeer lichen) genus is whitish-grey in colour and grows in low, bushy clumps. The familiar common ...
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Knothole moss (
Zygodon forsteri
)
Knothole moss is a small moss, and forms dark green cushions on tree trunks or exposed roots. It resembles other Zygodon species a...
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Long-leaved thread moss (
Bryum neodamense
)
Long-leaved thread moss is one of the easiest of the Bryum group of mosses to identify. It grows in tufts, is a reddish-green in c...
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Click beetle (
Lacon quercus
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This click beetle is generally brown in colour, with yellowish blotches and flecks, and a yellow band passing across the far end o...
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Lizard weevil (
Cathormiocerus britannicus
)
The Lizard weevil, so called because it is found only on the Lizard Peninsula, Cornwall, was once thought to be a species endemic ...
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Young's helleborine (
Epipactis youngiana
)
This orchid is endemic to Great Britain, this means that it does not occur anywhere else in the world. The flower petals and sepal...
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Ciliate strap-lichen (
Heterodermia leucomela
)
Ciliate strap-lichen has ribbon-like lobes that are ivory white in colour, with long black projections at the edges. The lobes are...
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Mire pill beetle (
Curimopsis nigrita
)
Pill beetles have rounded, convex bodies. The mire pill beetle, or 'bog hog' is tiny, measuring just 2 mm in length, and is black ...
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