Stair Knott discoveries

We found a huge variety of different species. Over 50 that we knew the names of and lots more we didn't! We found lots of flora such as orchids, including a very rare bee orchid, heather, bilberry, crowberry, tormentil, heath bedstraw and thyme amongst many others. The fauna we found were things like bumble bees such as Bombus Lucorum, Bombus Lapidarius and an unusual cuckoo bee (a bee that lays it's eggs in another bumble bees nest just like the bird does called Bombus Sylvestris. Best of all was a bug Saul found. We didn't know what it was but Mr Moore got a picture of it and showed it to his wife, she didn't know either but knew an expert who did. It was a leafhopper called Planaphrodes bifasciata. It was only the 33rd time it had been spotted in Cumbria and 25 of those previous records were from before 1938!!! We discovered Stair Knott was full of wildlife!