Cornish invertebrates

An invertebrate is an animal without a backbone and we have an astounding number of different invertebrate species living in Cornwall.

From stunning butterflies, moths and dragonflies to fascinating spiders, slugs and snails; we even have marine invertebrates living around our coasts!

Peacock butterfly photograph by Leon Truscott

• Amazing moths
• Asian longhorn beetle invasion
• Checklist of butterflies in Cornwall
• Large Blue butterfly - reintroduction into North Cornwall
• Photographs of British moths
• National Moth Night
• Glow-worms
• Non-marine mollusca check list
• Atlas of the land and freshwater molluscs of Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly
• Goose barnacles in Cornwall
• Three species of Sepia cuttlefish
• Spirula spirula in Cornish waters
• Seasearch Projects - Pink sea fan survey
• British Invertebrate Books available from Amazon.co.uk

Oak Eggar moth

Related pages from the Cornwall Biodiversity Initiative Pond Educational Resource Pack

• Beetles
• Bugs
• Crustaceans
• Dragonflies and damselflies
• Flies
• Molluscs
• Spiders and mites

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