| Sarratt Bottom | |
| Out of the sites we regularly visit Sarratt Bottom is the
furthest from the centre of Watford being our only truly isolated site about 4 miles from the town centre.
Another SSSI it is an area of alluvial meadow along the river Chess west of the village of Sarratt. The site
contains a mixture of damp grassland, marsh and swamp. Parts of the site are normally grazed by cattle and the occassional bull! The Chess Valley Walk runs
along side the river and during the summer months can get quite busy.
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Chess feeder stream |
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Various trees |
Willow and Oak(left) |
River Chess |
Chess feeder stream |
| Species List | Comments |
| Anobiidae | |
| Anobium fulvicorne | Common | Anthicidae |
| Omonadus floralis | |
| Apionidae | |
| Apion frumentarium | Common |
| Ceratapion carduorum | |
| Ceratapion onopordi | |
| Perapion curtirostre | |
| Perapion hydrolapathi | |
| Perapion marchicum | |
| Buprestidae | |
| Agrilus viridis | Single specimen. First Herts Record |
| Cantharidae | |
| Cantharis decipiens | Common |
| Cantharis lateralis | Single specimen only but probably more common |
| Cantharis livida | Common |
| Cantharis nigra | |
| Cantharis nigricans | Common |
| Cantharis pallida | |
| Cantharis pellucida | |
| Cantharis rufa | |
| Cantharis rustica | Common |
| Malthodes minimus | Single specimen |
| Rhagonycha fulva | Very common |
| Rhagonycha lignosa | |
| Rhagonycha limbata | |
| Carabidae | |
| Agonum thoreyi | |
| Amara communis | |
| Amara familiaris | |
| Bembidion guttula | |
| Clivina fossor | |
| Demetrias atricapillus | |
| Dromius linearis | |
| Harpalus affinis | |
| Harpalus latus | |
| Poecilus cupreus | |
| Trichocellus placidus | |
| Cerambycidae | |
| Grammoptera ruficornis | Common |
| Pseudovadonia livida | |
| Tetrops praeustus | |
| Chrysomelidae | |
| Altica lythri | Common |
| Cassida rubignosa | |
| Cassida vibex | |
| Crepidodera aurata | Very Common |
| Donacia semicuprea | Large Colony |
| Galerucella lineola | |
| Galerucella sagittariae | |
| Gastrophysa viridula | |
| Hydrothassa marginella | |
| Lema cyanella | |
| Lochmaea crataegi | |
| Oulema obscura | |
| Phaedon cochleariae | |
| Plagiodera versicolora | |
| Prasocuris junci | |
| Sphaeroderma testaceum | |
| Coccinellidae | |
| Adalia bipunctata | |
| Adalia decempunctata | |
| Anisosticta novemdecimpunctata | |
| Coccidula rufa | |
| Coccinella septempunctata | |
| Halyzia sedecimguttata | |
| Harmonia axyridis | |
| Propylea quattuordecimpunctata | |
| Subcoccinella vigintiquattuorpunctata | |
| Cryptophagidae | |
| Atomaria punctithorax | |
| Curculionidae | |
| Archarius pyrrhocerus | |
| Archarius salicivorus | |
| Barypeithes pellucidus | |
| Ceutorhyncus assimilis | |
| Ceutorhyncus pallidactylus | |
| Coeliodes ruber | Notable B |
| Drupentatus nasturtii | |
| Hadroplontus litura | |
| Liophloeus tessulatus | |
| Orchestes fagi | |
| Orchestes pilosus | |
| Phyllobius maculicornis | |
| Phyllobius pomaceus | |
| Phyllobius pyri | |
| Phyllobius roboretanus | |
| Rhinocyllus conicus | Notable A |
| Rhampus pulicarius | Notable A |
| Rhinoncus pericarpius | |
| Sirocalodes depressicollis | |
| Sitona lepidus | |
| Sitona lineatus | |
| Tachyerges salicis | |
| Elateridae | |
| Agriotes acuminatus | |
| Agriotes lineatus | |
| Agriotes obscurus | |
| Athous haemorrhoidalis | |
| Denticollis linearis | |
| Kibunea minuta | |
| Histeridae | |
| Atholus bimaculatus | |
| Hydrophilidae | |
| Sphaeridium lunatum | |
| Sphaeridium scarabaeoides | |
| Kateretidae | |
| Kateretes pedicularius | |
| Kateretes pusillus | |
| Latridiidae | |
| Cartodere bifasciata | |
| Melyridae | |
| Cordylepherus viridis | |
| Dasytes aeratus | |
| Malachius bipustulatus | |
| Oedemeridae | |
| Oedemera lurida | |
| Pyrochroidae | |
| Pyrochroa serraticornis | |
| Rhynchitidae | |
| Neocoenorrhinus aeqatus | |
| Temnocerus nanus | |
| Scarabaeidae | |
| Aphodius erraticus | |
| Aphodius fossor | |
| Aphodius granarius | |
| Aphodius haemorrhoidalis | |
| Aphodius obliteratus | |
| Aphodius prodromus | |
| Aphodius rufipes | |
| Aphodius rufus | |
| Aphodius sphacelatus | |
| Aphodius sticticus | |
| Hoplia philanthus | |
| Melolontha melolontha | |
| Phyllopertha horticola | |
| Scraptiidae | |
| Anaspis fasciata | |
| Anaspis maculata | |
| Anaspis regimbarti | |
| Anaspis rufilabris | |
| Silphidae | |
| Silpha atrata | Silvanidae |
| Psammoecus bipunctatus | |
| Staphylinidae | |
| Metopsia clypeata | |
| Eusphalerum luteum | |
| Platystethus arenarius | |
| Stenus cicindeloides | |
| Stenus clavicornis | |
| Stenus picipes | |
| Tachinus lignorum | Notable |