| Beetles
      Top l to r: common sexton beetle, green tortoise beetle; bottom l to r: lesser stag beetle, Cantharis pellucida (a soldier beetle)© Top l to r: English Nature, Roger Key/English Nature; bottom l to r: English Nature, Roger Key/English NatureBeetles occur almost everywhere, vary hugely in size and are both prey and predators in the garden. Some of the attractive ground beetles may eat slugs, click beetles eat snails, while other beetle species are entirely vegetarian, often living off decaying matter. Adult beetles may be eaten by common lizards, common toads and by many species of bird including little owls and kestrels, as well as by mammals as different as foxes, badgers and pipistrelle and other bats. Beetle larvae provide food for a range of vertebrate species and may themselves also be vegetarian or carnivorous. PlantsAutumn hawkbit, Black spleenwort, Broad buckler-fern, Brooklime, Bulrush, Common poppy, Common rock-rose, Common water-crowfoot, Dyer's greenweed, Garden candytuft, Hairy greenweed, Hart's-tongue, Lady-fern, Lesser bulrush, Male-fern, Narrow-leaved everlasting-pea, Night-scented stock, Pale flax, Pale toadflax, Pennyroyal, Perennial flax, Perforate St John's-wort, Rock samphire, Royal fern, Shirley poppy, Skullcap, Snapdragon, Spignel, Strawberry clover, Sulphur clover, Thrift, Tufted hair-grass, Water dock, Welsh poppy, Wild candytuft, Wood sage, Yarrow, Yellow iris PreyLeiobunum rotundum PredatorsBirds, Blackcap, Blue tit, Brown long-eared bat, Carrion crow, Chaffinch, Chiffchaff, Coal tit, Collared dove, Common lizard, Common red soldier beetle, Common shrew, Crevice spider, Dunnock, Fox, Garden warbler, Goldcrest, Goldfinch, Great spotted woodpecker, Great tit, Greenfinch, Grey wagtail, Hedgehog, Hornet, House sparrow, Jackdaw, Kestrel, Lesser spotted woodpecker, Linnet, Little owl, Long-tailed tit, Marsh tit, willow tit, Moorhen, Noctule bat, Nuthatch, Pheasant, Pied wagtail, Red ant, Red-headed cardinal beetle, Redpoll, Redstart, Reed bunting, Robin, Rook, Serotine bat, Siskin, Spotted flycatcher, Starling, Treecreeper, Whitethroat, Willow warbler, Woodpigeon, Wren, Yellow-necked mouse, Yellowhammer BeetlesAgonum dorsale, Anaspis maculata, Aphodius rufipes, Atomaria mesomela, Black clock, Brown chafer, Calathus melanocephalus, Cantharis pellucida, Celery leaf beetle, Common malachite beetle, Common pill beetle, Common pollen beetle, Common red soldier beetle, Common sexton beetle, Common sun beetle, Common whirligig beetle, Devil's coach-horse, Grammoptera ruficornis, Green tortoise beetle, Harpalus affinis, Hister unicolor, Lagria hirta, Lesser stag beetle, Loricera pilicornis, Notiophilus biguttatus, Oedemera nobilis, Philonthus politus, Red-headed cardinal beetle, Rhagium mordax, Rose chafer, Rutpela maculata, Stag beetle, Tachyporus chrysomelinus, Tachyporus hypnorum, Violet ground beetle, Wasp beetle |
