Insect List for Oldbury Power Station
The following documents an ongoing attempt to identifying the insects (and Spiders and Worms). The initial list was compiled by Matt Plenty, with thanks.
(All photos taken at OPS.)
Jump to Grasshoppers and Crickets Jump to Butterflies Jump to Moths
Jump to Flies Jump to Wasps Jump to Bees
Jump to Beetles Jump to Spiders Jump to Worms and Ants
Odonata - Dragonflies
Large Red Damselfly (Pyrrhosoma nymphula) Annual
Common Blue Damselfly (Enallagma cyathigerum) Annual
Azure Damselfly (Coenagrion puella) Annual
Blue-tailed Damselfly (Ischnura elegans) Annual
Small
Red-eyed Damselfly (Erythromma viridulum) Infrequent
since first seen on 23/7/14 (The small black
'x' at the end of the tail is diagnostic)
Southern
Hawker (Aeshna cyanea) Annual
Migrant
Hawker (Aeshna mixta) Annual
Emperor
(Anax imperator) Annual
Four-spotted
Chaser (Libellula quadrimaculata)
Infrequent
Broad-bodied
Chaser (Libellula depressa)
Annual (male, left, and female, right, below)
Black-tailed
Skimmer (Orthetrum cancellatum)
Infrequent (photo on right below is a very old female – patterns dull with
age)
Common
Darter (Sympetrum striolatum) Annual
Ruddy Darter (Sympetrum sanguineum) (photo on right below is a female - photo by TK)
Lesser Emperor
Yellow-winged Darter (Sympetrum flaveolum) BRERC record, 14/8/95. Rare migrant.
Emerald Damselfly Reported in 90's (info. from Martin Hayes).
Southern Migrant Hawker- rare migrant - photo on left below is a male (by Heather England), and on right is female (by Mark Coller). Amazingly seen mating ! Aug 2023
Hairy Dragonfly - photos by Matt Plenty, showing hairs. April 2024
Grasshoppers
Field Grasshopper
Meadow Grasshopper
Lesser Marsh Grasshopper
Bush-Crickets
Short-winged Conehead (9/7/23, MP)
Long-winged Conehead (20/10/13)
Great Green Bush-Cricket
Roesel’s Bush-Cricket (Annual since 2014)
Short-winged Conehead (BRERC record, 20/07/08)
Dark Bush-cricket (BRERC record, 18/06/02)
Speckled Bush-cricket (BRERC record, 20/07/08)
Butterflies
Small
Skipper Annual
Essex
Skipper Annual since 19/7/11
Large
Skipper Annual
Grizzled Skipper (Regularly seen in 1980s and one seen 1.6.12)
Dingy Skipper (80s and 90s)
Clouded Yellow Annual - usually along the seawall, by Lagoons 1 & 2
Brimstone Annual
Large White Annual
Small White Annual
Green-veined White Annual
Orange Tip Annual
Green Hairstreak in hedge between Lagoons 1 and 2 (29/4/06)
Purple
Hairstreak (5/7/14 and seen annually since
2015 along main rhine)
White-letter Hairstreak BRERC record, 7/7/93
Holly Blue Annual
Brown
Argus Infrequent/ scarce
Common
Blue Annual
Small
Copper Annual (male on left, female on right, in photos below)
Also form caeruleopunctata - Small Copper with a row of blue spots
inside the orange border, 1/10/2018 & 29/7/21
Red
Admiral Annual
Painted
Lady Annual
Small
Tortoiseshell Annual but increasingly scarce
Peacock Annual
Comma
Annual
Marbled
White Common/ Annual in 80s and 90s, now infrequent/ scarce
Speckled
Wood Annual
Wall Infrequent/ scarce. Not seen since 90s.
Gatekeeper Annual
Meadow
Brown Annual
Small Heath Annual
Ringlet
Silver-washed Fritillary along main rhine/meadow in Aug 2019
Moths
Shaded Broad-bar Scotopteryx cheopodiata
Red underwing, 16/8/2008
Drinker (caterpillar), 31/05/08
Large
Yellow Underwing, 3 Aug 2008
Latticed
Heath, 14/8/04
Silver-Y,
17/7/06
Streamer, 17/4/09.
Blue-bordered Carpet, 3/7/10
Common Carpet, 22/6/19
Silver-ground Carpet, 20.5/21
Orange Underwing, 3/9/11
Magpie Moth, 27/8/12
Oak Eggar - large brown/orange males fly in day in summer (caterpillar,
9/5/14, big female in light-trap, 13/8/21)
Small Eggar - Lagoon 3, 1st July 2023
Brimstone Moth, 29/8/17
Mottled Umber, 16/12/2016
Six-spot Burnet
Five-spot Burnet
Lackey – hairy caterpillars in silk 'tents' around Lagoon 2
Cocksfoot – only 3mm long !
Brown-tail
Yellow-tail (do not touch caterpillars - irritant hairs !)
Hummingbird Hawkmoth
Plum Tortrix
Eyed Hawkmoth - in orchard, June 2020
Scarlet Tiger - Lagoon 2, June 2020
Swallow-tailed - along shore, July 2020 & moth-trap July 2021
Mottled Beauty
Water Veneer - moth-trap Aug 2021
Elephant Hawkmoth - very large caterpillar.
Fox Moth caterpillar
Winter Moth caterpillar - in orchard
Common Nettle-tap
Companion Moth
Green Longhorn
The following 33 species were added to the OPS list when a light-trap was put in the orchard overnight on 23/7/21. (And another 9 species already on the OPS list also seen.)
Aceleris Forsskaleana (Tortrix sp.)
Bird-cherry Ermine
Black Arches - 2 (m + f)
Bufftip
Carcina Quercana (prob)
Cloaked Minor
Clouded Silver
Codling Moth
Common Emerald
Common Footman - 20+
Common Quaker
Common Wainscot - 2
Dark Arches
Dingy Footman - 3+
Dun-bar - 2
Early Thorn
Eudotricha Fammealis
Gypsonoma Aceriana
Nut-tree Tussock - 2
Oak Hook tip
Pale Prominent - 2
Pebble Prominent
Privet Hawkmoth
Riband Wave
Rosy Footman - 4
Ruby Tiger - 3
Scalloped Oak
Small Emerald
Straw Underwing
Striped Wainscot
Willow Beauty - 2
White-spotted Pug.
The following 12 species were added to the OPS list when a light-trap was put in the orchard again overnight on 13/8/21. (And another 4 species already on the OPS list also seen.)
Orange Swift
The following 27 species are from old BRERC records. Teasel Marble 20/7/2008 Yellow-spot Twist 20/7/2008 Common Marble 20/7/2008 Rhomboid Tortrix 14/9/2001 Elbow-stripe Grass-veneer 14/9/2001 Long-horned Flat-body 14/9/2001 Sallow 14/9/2001 Bordered Carl 14/9/2001 Light Brown Apple Moth 14/9/2001 Rosy Rustic 14/9/2001 Snout 14/9/2001 Pear Leaf Blister Moth 14/9/2001 Apple Leaf Minor 14/9/2001 Skin Moth 14/9/2001 Smoky Wainscot 14/9/2001 Flame Shoulder 14/9/2001 Lunar Underwing 14/9/2001 Hawthorn Slender 14/9/2001 Barred Sallow 14/9/2001 Pale Eggar 14/9/2001 Setaceous Hebrew Character 14/9/2001 Square-spot Rustic 14/9/2001 Sulphur Pearl 13/8/96 Straw Grass-veneer 4/8/94 Narrow Bordered Five-spot Burnet 4/8/94 Cinnabar 20/7/08 Light Brocade, dead in bird hide, 1/7/96 The following 67 species are from old BRERC records of a Light session. Common Cloaked Shoot 28/7/2008 Ermine Knot-horn 28/7/2008 Scarce Footman 28/7/2008 Bud Moth 28/7/2008 Knapweed Conch 28/7/2008 Cloaked Minor 28/7/2008 Garden Grass-veneer 28/7/2008 Black-headed Conch 28/7/2008 Barred Grass-veneer 28/7/2008 Thistle Ermine 28/7/2008 Grey Knot-horn 28/7/2008 Bordered Marble 28/7/2008 Chalk Knot-horn 28/7/2008 Satin Grass-veneer 28/7/2008 Bulrush Veneer 28/7/2008 Pebble Hook-tip 28/7/2008 Plain Conch 28/7/2008 Rustic 28/7/2008 Timothy Tortrix 28/7/2008 Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing 28/7/2008 Common Yellow Conch 28/7/2008 Dusky Sallow 28/7/2008 Garden Carpet 28/7/2008 Rosy Conch 28/7/2008 Shuttle-shaped Dart 28/7/2008 Heart & Club 28/7/2008 Dark Fruit-tree Tortrix 28/7/2008 Ribwort Slender 28/7/2008 Tawny Speckled Pug 28/7/2008 Ling Pug 28/7/2008 Brindled Flat-body 28/7/2008 Lime-speck Pug 28/7/2008 Little Conch28/7/2008 Spindle Ermine28/7/2008 Brown-spot Flat-body 28/7/2008 Large Clover Case-bearer 28/7/2008 Single-dotted Wave 28/7/2008 Small Blood-vein 28/7/2008 Double-striped Pug28/7/2008 Inlaid Grass-veneer 28/7/2008 Rosy Tabby 28/7/2008 Smoky-barred Marble 28/7/2008 Dark Dagger 28/7/2008 Uncertain 28/7/2008 Purple Bar 28/7/2008 Clay 28/7/2008 Small Grey 28/7/2008 Red Twin-spot Carpet 28/7/2008 Wainscot Smudge 28/7/2008 Dotted Oak Knot-horn 28/7/2008 Double-square Spot 28/7/2008 Hoary Belle 28/7/2008 Blood-vein 28/7/2008 Lesser-spotted Pinion 28/7/2008 Diamond-back Moth 28/7/2008 Orange Crest 28/7/2008 Cabbage Moth 28/7/2008 Bulrush Cosmet 28/7/2008 Grey Tortrix 28/7/2008 Common Rustic 28/7/2008 Mother of Pearl 28/7/2008 Purple Argent 28/7/2008 Copper Ermel28/7/2008 Apple Ermine 28/7/2008 Pale-streak Grass-veneer 28/7/2008 Ghost Moth 28/7/2008 Marbled Bell 28/7/2008 White-headed Ermel 28/7/2008 Daddy
Long legs Tupulidae oleracea Spotted Crane Fly (Nephrotoma appendiculata, BRERC record, 2/5/91) Symplecta stictica - a small crane fly (BRERC record, 2/5/91) Long-legged
fly Poecilobothrus nobilatus *Eristalinus sepulchralis
(localised/ declining hoverfly sp. associated
with wetlands. One of only 2 sp of hoverfly that have
'spotted eyes'.) *Tropidea scita (local hoverfly
sp., found in reedbeds) Scaeva pyrastri Helophilus pendulus (Sun Fly) Volucella pellucans Volucella zonaria - Hornet Hoverfly Eupeodes luniger Eristalis tenax Marmalade
fly Rhingia campestris Eristalis intricaria Snipe
fly Rhagio scolopacea Dotted
Bee fly Bombylius discolour Dark-edged
Bee fly Bombylius major Empis tessellate Mesembrina meridian Greenbottle Drone-fly Semaphore Fly St. Mark's Fly Twin-lobbed Deerfly Black-horned Gem Fly Waisted Beegrabber Common Conopid Two-banded Wasp Hoverfly (Chrysotoxum Bicinctum) Stripe-faced Dronefly (Eristalis Nemorum) Graphomya maculata Banded General (Stratiomys potamida) Picture-winged Fly (Euleia heraclei) Helophilus trivittatus (BRERC record, 18/6/02) Leucozona lucorum (BRERC record, 18/6/02) Volucella bombylans (BRERC record, 18/6/02) Adia cinerella (BRERC record, 2/5/91) Anthomyia liturata (BRERC record, 2/5/91) Botanophila fugax (BRERC record, 2/5/91) Botanophila striolata/discreta agg. (BRERC record, 2/5/91) Turnip Maggot Fly - Delia florilega (BRERC record, 2/5/91) Seedcorn Maggot Fly/Bean Seed Fly - Delia platura (BRERC record, 2/5/91) Dicranomyia mitis (BRERC record, 2/5/91) Hylemya variata (BRERC record, 2/5/91) Pegoplata infirma (BRERC record, 2/5/91) Tricyphona immaculata (BRERC record, 2/5/91) Pegomya bicolor (BRERC record, 2/5/91) Broad Centurion, Chloromyia formosa (BRERC record, 20/7/08) Notch-horned Clegg, Haematopota pluvialis (BRERC record, 20/7/08) German Scorpionfly Lacewings Common Green Lacewing Alder
fly Common
wasp Hornet Conops quadrifasciata Oak Marble Gall
Wasp (Andricus kollari) Acorn or Knopper
Gall Wasp (Andricus quercuscalicis) Rose Gall Wasp
(Diplolepsis Rosae) Crown Gall (caused by Bacterium Agrobacterium tumefaciens) - here on Sallow Fig Gall (caused by an aphid called Tetraneura ulmi.) - on Wych Elm Turnip Sawfly Tenthredopsis Litterata Gasteruption Jaculator Gasteruption Assectator Yellow Ophion (Ophion Luteus) Orange-legged Darwin Wasp (Pimpla rufipes) Orange-brown Darwin Wasp (Orphion scutellaris), March 2023 Hogweed Fly Fox (Ectemnius Lituratus) Field Digger Wasp (Mellinus Arvensis) Loosestrife Sawfly - feeding on Yellow Loosestrife. probable Social Pear Sawfly Heather
colletes Colletes
succinctus (probably this sp. Seen near gate to
shore on lag 3 many times in 2018. Fast flying and very difficult to
photograph). *Large
Meadow Mining bee Andrena
labialis Tawny
Mining bee Andrena
fulva Patchwork
Leafcutter bee Gwynnes Mining bee Andrena
bicolor Red-tailed
Cuckoo bee Buff-tailed
Bumblebee White-tailed
Bumblebee Red-tailed
Bumblebee Common
carder Bumblebee Brown-banded Carder Bee (queen on right below), Lagoon 3 in 2022 Early
Bumblebee Hairy
footed flower bee Honey
bee Goodan's Nomad bee Flavous Nomad bee Lathbury's Nomad Bee Hawthorn
Mining Bee Andrena chrysosceles Orange-tailed
Mining Bee Andrena haemorroa Yellow-legged
Mining Bee Andrena flavipes Ashy
Mining Bee Andrena cineraria Grey-banded Mining Bee (Andrena denticulata) Red
Mason Bee Osmia bicornis Grey-patched
Mining Bee Andrena nitida Long-horned Bee Wilke's Mining Bee Violet Ground Beetle 7-spot Ladybird 10-spot Ladybird 24-spot Ladybird 14-spot Ladybird - Oct 2004, Jul 2023(MP) Harlequin
– invasive species Swollen-thighed Beetle (male left, female right, below) Soldier
Beetle Red Soldier Beetle Aphodiini quadrimaculatus, a small Dung Beetle Paederus littoralis, a predatory Beetle Lagria Hirta Giant Diving Beetle - in pond by Lagoon 2 Common Leaf Weevil Apple Twig Cutter Weevil - Involvulus icosandriae Red-headed Cardinal Beetle Lesser Stag Beetle Supertramp (a Water Beetle) - rhantus suturalis Two species of small Water Beetle/Beetle Two species of Water Boatman Elm Bark Beetle Agonum Muelleri Green Tortoise Beetle, Cassida viridis (BRERC record, 20/7/08) Agonum emarginatum (BRERC record, 2/5/91) Amara communis (BRERC record, 2/5/91) Bembidion lunulatum (BRERC record, 2/5/91) Bembidion obtusum (BRERC record, 2/5/91) Paranchus albipes (BRERC record, 2/5/91) Poecilus cupreus (BRERC record, 2/5/91) Pterostichus strenuus (BRERC record, 2/5/91) Alder Leaf Beetle Wasp Beetle Black-and-Yellow Longhorn Beetle Soronia grisea Yellow-haired Click Beetle - first for S. Gloucs., on saltmarsh logs at Shepperdine Golden-bloomed Grey Longhorn Beetle Willow Flea Beetle Frog-hoppers Red
and Black Froghopper Cercopis vulnerata (very common in long grass
all around OPS) Leaf-hoppers Eared Leafhopper Bugs Common Damsel Bug Red Spotted Plantbug The following 15 species are from old BRERC records. Common Flower Bug (Anthocoris nemorum) 20/7/2008 Parent Bug (Elasmucha grisea) 20/7/2008 Lucerne Bug (Adelphocoris lineolatus) 20/7/2008 Timothy Grassbug (Stenotus binotatus) 20/7/2008 Green Shieldbug (Palomena prasina) 20/7/2008 Meadow Plant Bug (Leptopterna dolabrata) 20/7/2008 Mirid Bug (Deraeocoris ruber) 20/7/2008 Dicyphus epilobii 20/7/2008 Heterotoma planicornis 20/7/2008 Liocoris tripustulatus 20/7/2008 Myrmus miriformis 20/7/2008 Notostira elongata 20/7/2008 Oedemera lurida 20/7/2008 Stenodema laevigata 20/7/2008 Dyschirius tristis 2/5/91 Enoplognatha ovata Crab Spider Zebra Spider Nurseryweb Spider, Pisaura mirabalis Harvestman - Phalangium opilio Red Spider-mite Cucumber Spider - Araniella cucurbitina Common Earthworm Ragworm - see note 1 below Capitella spp.(worms of estuary mud) - see note 1 below Note 1 - identified in 'Severn Estuary SAC and SPA:Intertidal Mud & Sandflats Condition Assessment 2012'
Banded Centipede Common Earwig Black Ant Common Red Ant No. of species = 407 __________________________________________________________________________________________________ 
Bulrush Wainscot
Thicket Knot-horn (Acrobasis Suavenella)
Copper Underwing
Grey Dagger
Ear Moth
Crescent
Lesser Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing
Mocha
Swallow Prominent
Lesser/Common Rustic agg.
Crambus sp. (very faded)
Yellow Shell (June 2023)
Clifden Nonpareil (1st Sep 2023, found by and photo, Louise Bailey, Lagoon 2)
Early Reveller (29th Feb 2024)
Mother Shipton (16th April 2024, found by and photo, Matt Plenty, Lagoon 2)
Crane-flies (aka Daddy-Long-Legs)
Diptera - True Flies
Wasps
Bees
Beetles
Spiders
Worms
publications.naturalengland.org.uk/file/4717872094380032Centipedes, Millipedes & Earwigs
Ants
