About the reserve

Scarning Fen is well known among naturalists for its excellent array of invertebrates. It is home to a wide variety of nationally scarce species, including the small red damselfly. In the UK, this species is only locally common in the south-western counties but very rare elsewhere. Scarning Fen is its only known home in Norfolk, holding a small but vulnerable population. Males are a uniform scarlet, lacking any stripes on their bodies; females are darker. These weak flyers are on the wing from June to the start of September.  

You can also find several interesting plants at Scarning Fen, including rare liverworts and mosses.