This Lancashire Wildlife Trust managed site comprises the last extensive area of ungrazed saltmarsh on the Lancashire coast. More information about the site can be found on the Lancashire Wildlife Trust website here.

Recorders: Phil Brighton, Steve Garland, Gary Hedges, Belinda Nixie, Rob Zloch

Notable Records:

Trichosirocalus thalhammeri (Curculionidae), G. Hedges.
• New to VC60 according to the regional checklist (Washington, 2020).
• A weevil often found in Saltmarsh, as in this occurrence.

Protapion dissforme (Apionidae), G. Hedges.
• New to VC60 according to the regional checklist (Washington, 2020).
• Associated with clovers in damp grassland.

Syntormon pseudospicatum (Dolichopodidae), P. Brighton.
• New to Lancashire and the region although has been recorded in a Cumbrian area of Morecambe Bay.
• Found in numbers on the Saltmarsh.

Xanthocanace ranula (Canacidae), P. Brighton.
• Probably new to Lancashire and the region. No previous records on NBN Atlas.
• A specialist of rocky shores.

Orthotylus moncreaffi (Miridae), P. Brighton.
• New to Lancashire and the region according to both the regional checklist (Judd 2011) and Rob
Ryan’s more recent National Heteroptera Atlas of published records.
• Associated with Sea Purslane Atriplex portulacoides and related plants growing in salt marshes.

Download Burrows Marsh & Barnaby Sands Raw Data & Species List [Excel spreadsheet] last updated 18/11/2022

A key for the ‘Conservation status’ column is available in the above download.