ESSEX NATURALIST
Volume 18 (New series) 2001
1 -2 Report of the Essex Field Club for 2000-2001
3 Income and expenditure account for 2000
4 Balance sheet for 2000
5-6 Lieutenant Colonel Arthur Maitland Emmet, MBE, TD, MA, HON. FRES, FLS Brian Goodey
6-8 Essex Field Club Annual Exhibition 18 November 2000
9-28 The 2001 AGM address: The retreat of the Late Pliocene and Lower Pleistocene Crag sea and
the development of the Early Pleistocene Thames - a review Peter Allen
29-37 An introduction to some aquatic protozoa in Essex and their study using a microscope Steve
Durr
WILDLIFE REVIEW OF THE YEAR
38-53 Wildlife and conservation review of 2000 Chris Gibson
54-58 Review of the wildlife of Epping Forest in 2000 Jeremy Dagley
58-59 The Grey Mining Bee Andrena cineraria refound in Epping Forest Amanda Samuels
60 Chrysura radians (Harris) (Hymenoptera: Chrysididae), a cuckoo-wasp new to Essex Adrian
Knowles
60-62 Odynerus simillimus Morawitz, F., 1867, rediscovered in Essex Peter Harvey and David Scott
62-63 A new Essex record of the Yellow Loosestrife Bee Macropis europaea Warncke, 1973 Peter
Harvey and Dan Hackett
64 Andricus aries (Mayr) (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae) - a gall wasp new to Essex Jerry Bowdrey
65-66 Four species of Coleoptera new to Essex Nigel Cuming and Jerry Bowdrey
66 The welcome return of the Polecat Mustela putorius to Essex John Dobson
67 Dormouse update Sue Ward
67 Erythristic Mole Talpa europaea at Little Dunmow David Scott
Recorder Reports for 2000:
68 Freshwater Algae in Essex Hilary Belcher
68-69 New Charophyte (Stonewort) and Bryophyte records and corrigenda Ken Adams
70-71 Essex mammals in 2000 John Wright
71-72 Bats in Essex in 2000 John Dobson
72-73 Amphibian and reptile notes for 2000 David Scott
73-78 Some interesting spider records for 1999-2000 Peter Harvey
79-80 Recent hoverfly records from Essex Roger Payne
81-82 Essex gall report 2000 Jerry Bowdrey
83-94 Some interesting aculeate Hymenoptera records for 1999-2000 Peter Harvey
95-100 Review of the Lepidoptera of Essex for the year 2000 Brian Goodey
100-102 Orthoptera of Essex 2000 - a review of current status Alan Wake
102-104 Essex geology report Gerald Lucy
CONSERVATION AND MANAGEMENT
105-112 The flies (Diptera) of Epping Forest John Ismay
113-120 Some observations on changes in the wildlife of Epping Forest since 1939 Ken Hoy
121-129 The development of a monitoring technique to record the abundance of a canopy-dwelling
butterfly species: Satyrium w-album (Knoch) (White-letter Hairstreak) Zoe Ringwood, Robin
Field, Julian Hill and David Mortimer
129-138 Habitats and abundance of butterflies on agricultural land at Writtle College Robin Field and
Tim Gardiner
139-145 Changes in macro-moth abundance on the Writtle College Estate Robin Field and Tim Gardiner
146-156 Problems in elm and rose Identifications - from a detailed study of woods and hedgerows near
Earl's Colne Brian Wright and Ursula Broughton
STATUS, DISTRIBUTION AND IDENTIFICATION
157-160 Notes on Essex specialities. 5: Sickle-leaved Hare's-ear Bupleurum falcatum L. subsp.
falcatum Ken Adams
161-162 Notes on Essex specialities. 6: the mining bee Colletes halophilus Verhoeff, P.M.F., 1944
(Apidae: Colletinae) Peter Harvey
163-168 The European Scorpion Euscorpius flavicaudis (Degeer, 1778) (Scorpiones: Chactidae) in
Essex Colin Plant
169-176 The Bryophyte flora of the anthills at Old Hall Marshes Terri Tarpey
177-218 Snake-flies, alderflies and lacewings (Neuropterida) and scorpion flies (Mecoptera): a
provisional review of their status and distribution in Essex with notes on their etymology Colin
Plant
Front cover photograph Campanella, an aquatic protozoan © Steve Durr
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