Orchid Beetle - Dascillus cervinus
This beetle is about 1 cm long and is covered in hair, which is yellowish brown in the females and greyer in the males.
Rough grassland, usually on flowers, but sometimes in bushes.
May to July, with a peak in June.
The larvae eat roots, mainly those of vigorous grasses.
Widespread but rather local in Britain
Infrequent in Leicestershire and Rutland but increasing. 40+ specimens have been found in one day on one site.
David Nicholls
New Lount
14 June 2012
David Nicholls
Bloody Oaks Quarry NR
07 June 2023
David Nicholls
Bloody Oaks Quarry NR
07 June 2023
David Nicholls
New Lount
14 June 2012
Kate Nightingale
Charnwood Lodge
25 June 2015
David Nicholls
New Lount
14 June 2012
David Nicholls
New Lount
14 June 2012
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Species profile
- Common names
- Orchid Beetle
- Species group:
- Beetles
- Kingdom:
- Animalia
- Order:
- Coleoptera
- Family:
- Dascillidae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 23
- First record:
- 14/06/2012 (Nicholls, David)
- Last record:
- 16/06/2025 (Robinson, David)
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David Nicholls
Ulverscroft NR, Poultney Wood
21 June 2023
Andy's Rutland
Bloody Oaks N R
07 June 2018
Kate Nightingale
Charnwood Lodge
25 June 2015
Barbara Cooper
Charnwood Lodge NNR
06 June 2019
Annie Smith
Charnwood lodge
23 June 2016
Kate Nightingale
Charnwood Lodge
23 June 2016
Kate Nightingale
Charnwood Lodge
23 June 2016
sue
Thornton Meadows
21 June 2019
