M69 Island, Sapcote

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Wildlife Highlights

The flora includes Common Spotted Orchids which are abundant here. A single Bee Orchid has also been found on the site as has the rather infrequent Smooth Tare.  The salted roadsides bordering the roundabout have produced Lesser Sea-spurrey and Reflexed Saltmarsh-grass.

 

The insect life is very rich with good numbers of species such as Roesel's Bush-cricket, and several species of grasshopper, together with various beetles (including the recently arrived Swollen-thighed Beetle), hoverflies, bugs and moths. It is a good place to look for the Narrow-bordered Five-spot Burnet Moth. Mating pairs and their larvae have been recorded on the site.

 

The Blackthorn thickets on the roundabout are one of only three or four places nationally where the galls of gall midge Putoniella pruni  have been recorded. 

Total species seen at this site: 89

Description

It might seem odd including a roundabout as one of our Wild Spaces but this one has proved to be a rich site for both flora and insects. Its proximity to nearby Freeholt Wood and Burbage Wood, and the fact that it is surrounded by trees and bushes, help to encourage a rich woodland edge insect population.

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Common Name Latin Name Date Recorded Recorded By
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Alder Sawfly Eriocampa ovata 04/06/2010 Graham Calow
Fine Streaked Bugkin Miris striatus 04/06/2010 Graham Calow
Ptycholoma lecheana 04/06/2010 Graham Calow
Putoniella pruni 04/06/2010 Graham Calow
Narrow-bordered Five-Spot Burnet Moth Zygaena lonicerae 04/06/2010 Graham Calow
Raspberry Beetle Byturus tomentosus 18/05/2010 Graham Calow
Choleva oblonga 18/05/2010 Graham Calow
Wasp Beetle Clytus arietis 18/05/2010 Graham Calow
Cydia ulicetana 18/05/2010 Graham Calow
Dichrorampha acuminatana 18/05/2010 Graham Calow
Epiblema cynosbatella 18/05/2010 Graham Calow
Dolerus triplicatus 13/05/2010 Graham Calow
Scolopostethus affinis 13/05/2010 Graham Calow
Anaspis humeralis 11/05/2010 Graham Calow
Anthomyia procellaris 11/05/2010 Graham Calow

Getting There

This traffic roundabout is situated at junction 2 of the M69 where it exits onto the B4669 Sapcote to Hinckley Road.  There are several lay-byes within a few hundred yards where parking is possible. 

It is only possible to exit and enter the M69 for Leicester at this junction (not to or from Coventry).

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Group Common Name Latin Name Last Seen
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Beetles 2 Spot Ladybird Adalia bipunctata 23/07/2009
Beetles 10 Spot Ladybird Adalia decempunctata 23/07/2009
Beetles Altica lythri 13/07/2009
Beetles Anaspis humeralis 11/05/2010
Bees, Wasps, Ants Ram's-Horn Gall Wasp Andricus aries 01/07/2009
Bees, Wasps, Ants Oak Marble Gall Wasp Andricus kollari 01/07/2009
Flies - other Anthomyia procellaris 11/05/2010
Butterflies Ringlet Aphantopus hyperantus 21/06/2007
Flies - other St Mark's Fly Bibio marci 26/04/2010
Beetles Raspberry Beetle Byturus tomentosus 18/05/2010
Wildflowers Cuckoo Flower Cardamine pratensis 26/04/2007
Spiders, Harvestmen & Mites Cecidophyes galii 01/07/2009
Moths Latticed Heath Chiasmia clathrata 12/07/2009
Beetles Choleva oblonga 18/05/2010
Grasshoppers & Crickets Meadow Grasshopper Chorthippus parallelus 23/07/2009
Lacewings & Scorpionflies Chrysopa perla 10/06/2009
Sawflies Poplar Sawfly Cladius grandis 23/07/2009
Beetles Wasp Beetle Clytus arietis 18/05/2010
Wildflowers Danish Scurvygrass Cochlearia danica 09/04/2010
Trees, Shrubs & Climbers Dogwood Cornus sanguinea 10/05/2007
Moths Crambus lathoniellus 10/06/2009
Wildflowers Beaked Hawk's-beard Crepis vesicaria 21/05/2007
Moths Cydia ulicetana 18/05/2010
Flies - other Cynomya mortuorum 26/04/2010
Wildflowers Common Spotted-orchid Dactylorhiza fuchsii 15/06/2006
Flies - other Dasineura fraxini 25/05/2011
Bugs Deraeocoris flavilinea 04/06/2010
Moths Dichrorampha acuminatana 18/05/2010
Moths Dichrorampha alpinana 04/06/2010
Moths Red-barred Tortrix Ditula angustiorana 12/07/2009