Fauna

Here is a comprehensive list of the fauna found in the Millennium Green. This page details all of the fauna that has been recorded during a survey that was carried out by the Lavenham Natural History group in 2008.

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Birds Large White Tawny Speckled Pug
Meadow Brown Udea olivalis
Blackbird Orange Tip Water Veneer
Blackcap Painted Lady White Ermine
Black-headed Gull Red Admiral White Plume Moth
Blue Tit Ringlet Beetles
Bullfinch Small Copper
Chaffinch Small Tortoiseshell 14-spot Ladybird
Chiffchaff Small White 24-spot Ladybird
Coal Tit Speckled Wood 2-spot Ladybird
Collared Dove Moths 7-spot Ladybird
Common Whitethroat Devil's Coach Horse
Dunnock Agapeta hamana Orange Ladybird
Fieldfare Agriphila geniculea Pine Ladybird
Garden Warbler Agriphila tristella Thick-kneed Beetle
Goldcrest Angle Shades Earwigs
Goldfinch Barred Yellow
Great Tit Beautiful Golden Y Common Earwig
Green Woodpecker Brimstone Moth Ants
Greenfinch Buff Ermine
Grey Heron Buff Tip Yellow Ant
Gt. Speckled Woodpecker Burnished Brass Dragonflies
& Damselflies
House Martin Cabbage Moth
House Sparrow Catoptria falsella Azure Damselfly
Jackdaw Celypha lacunana Banded Demoiselle
Jay Centre-barred Sallow Blue-tailed Damselfly
Lapwing Clouded Silver Brown Hawker
Lesser Whitethroat Common Carpet Common Darter
Long-tailed Tit Common Marbled Carpet Migrant Hawker
Magpie Common Rustic Southern Hawker
March Tit Common Swift Bees
Mistle Thrush Common Wainscot
Mute Swan Copper Underwing Buff-tailed Bumble Bee
Pheasant Crambus lathoniellus Common Carder Bee
Pied Wagtail Cydia splendana Cuckoo Bumble Bee sp.
Redwing Dot Moth Early Bumble Bee
Robin Dun-bar Early Mining Bee
Rook Elephant Hawk Hairy-foot Flower Bee
Skylark Emm. monodactyla Large Red-tailed Bumble Bee
Song Thrush Emperor Melecta albifrons
Sparrowhawk Euzophera pinguis Red Mason Bee
Starling Figure of Eighty Small Garden Bumble Bee
Swallow Flame Tawny Mining Bee
Swift Flame Shoulder White-tailed Bumble Bee
Turtle Dove Garden Carpet Wasps
Willow Warbler Garden Grass Veneer
Wood Pigeon Garden Pebble German Wasp (Nest)
Wren Ghost Moth Bugs
Mammals Green Carpet
Green Oak Tortrix Cercopis vilnerata
Brown Rat Green Pug Dock Bug
Common Shrew Heart and Dart Green Shieldbug
Field Vole Herald Pied Shieldbug
Grey Squirrel Ingrailed Clay Woundwort Shieldbug
Hedgehog Iron Prominent Grasshoppers
& Crickets
Muntjac Deer Large Yellow Underwing
Wood Mouse Latticed Heath Dark Bush Cricket
Reptiles Lesser Broad-border Field Grasshopper
Lesser Yellow Underwing Flies
Slow Worm Marbled Beauty
Molluscs Middle-barred Minor Episyphus balteatus
Mother of Pearl Meredon equestris
Garden Snail Mottled Beauty Volucella bombylans
Glossy Glass Snail Pale Mottled Willow Volucella pellucens
Kentish Snail Pale Prominent Galls
White-lipped Snail Peppered Moth
Amphibians Plum Tortrix Bedeguar (on Rose)
Poplar Grey Diastrophus rubi (Rose)
Common Frog Pretty Chalk Carpet Marble Gall (on Oak)
Woodlice Purple Bar Silk Button (on Oak)
Scorched Wing Fungi
Plat. Hoffmannsegi Set. Hebrew Character
(in Yellow Ants nest) Shuttle-shaped Dart Amethyst Deceiver
Butterflies Silver Y Candle Snuff
Silver-ground Carpet Lawyers Wig
Brimstone Small Angle Shades Orange-peel Peziza
Brown Argus Small Magpie
Comma Small Square-spot
Common Blue Small Waved Umber
Essex Skipper Snout
Gatekeeper Spectacle
Green-veined White Square-spot Rustic
Holly Blue Straw Dot
Large Skipper Tawny Marbled Minor


Information supplied by Jan Watchman