Bugs

Nezara viridula Leanna Dixon Port Sunlight River Park 11 September, 2020
Heather Sheildbug Phil Smith Freshfield Dune Heath 20 July, 2019
Dolycoris baccarum Phil Smith Freshfield Dune Heath 16 September, 2017
Stenodema laevigata Tim Worfolk Topsham, Devon 25 May, 2022
Pyrrhocoris apterus Thomas Bresson Bethoncourt, Franche-Comté, France 18 March, 2010

Key Information

NW County Recorder:

Steve Judd (VC58,59,60)

Active Specialist Recorders:

Pete Brash
Phil Brighton
Keith Fowler
Steve Garland
Gary Hedges (shieldbugs)
Phil Smith (shieldbugs)
Clive Washington
Keir Flowerdew (aphids)

UK Facebook Groups:

British Terrestrial True Bugs (Heteroptera) Recording Schemes

UK Hemiptera

 

National Websites:

Aquatic Heteroptera Recording Scheme for Britain and Ireland

Auchenorrhyncha Recording Scheme for Britain and Ireland

British Bugs – an online identification guide to UK Hemiptera, and the website for the Terrrestrial Heteroptera, and Psylloidea Recording Schemes.

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NW Resources and Publications

Checklists

Revised Checklist of Lancashire and Cheshire True Bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera)
Steve Judd
(Sept 2024)
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Status of Shieldbugs on the Sefton Coast, North Merseyside
Phil Smith
(December 2020)
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The Freshwater Bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) of Cheshire
Johnathan Guest, Alan Savage, Ian Wallace
(2003)
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First Lancashire and Cheshire records of true bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) with revised county checklists
Steve Judd
(2011)
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A provisional Revised Auchenorrhyncha Checklist for Cheshire & Lancashire
Keith Fowler
(November 2023)
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Fauna of Lancashire and Cheshire – Hemiptera – Heteroptera
Harry Britten
(1930)
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A Preliminary Catalogue of the Hemiptera-Homoptera of Lancashire and Cheshire
Oscar Whittaker
(1908)
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Atlases (online)

MBAN Shield-bug Recording Project
Merseyside Biobank
(2018)
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Survey Reports

Status of the Nationally Rare shorebug Chiloxanthus pilosus in northwest England with a preliminary survey of its distribution on the Ribble Estuary
Stephen M Hewitt
(January 2026)
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CONEY GREEN FARM & CROWTREES FARM PRIORITY HABITAT LOWLAND MEADOW & CHEGD GRASSLAND INVERTEBRATE SURVEY 2023 + 2021
Dave Bentley Entomology and Ecology Services
(1/4/2024)
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Heteroptera and Diptera surveys on the Ainsdale and Birkdale Hills Local Nature Reserve
Phil Brighton
(March 2020)
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Heteroptera and Diptera surveys on the Cholmondeley Estate
Phil Brighton
(March 2020)
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Heteroptera and Diptera Surveys on the Smithills Estate
Phil Brighton
(August 2020)
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Heteroptera and Diptera surveys on the Manchester Mosses with Pantheon analysis
Phil Brighton
(September 2018)
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Heteroptera and Diptera surveys in the Delamere Forest, 2013-2017
Phil Brighton
(October 2017)
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Other Resources

Distinctive Invertebrates in Light Traps
Gary Hedges
(31st August 2017)
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