ESSEX NATURALIST
Volume 20 (New Series) 2003 £10 (free to members)
1 -3 Report of the Essex Field Club for 2002-2003
4 Income and expenditure account for 2002
5 Balance sheet for 2002
6-8 Essex Field Club Annual Exhibition 7 December 2002
8 Exhibition supplement
9-18 The 2003 AGM address. Veteran trees and saproxylic invertebrates at Hylands Mark Hanson
WILDLIFE REVIEW OF THE YEAR
19-36 Wildlife and conservation review of 2002 Chris Gibson
37-39 New Charophyte (Stonewort) and Bryophyte records Ken Adams
40 Interesting fungus records for Autumn 2002 Tony Boniface
40-42 Essex gall report 2001-2002 Jerry Bowdrey
42-43 The flat-footed fly Agathomyia wankowiczii (Schnabl) (Diptera: Platypezidae), a gall inducer on
Artist's Fungus (Ganoderma applanatum) (Fr. Ex Pers.) Patouillard, new to Essex Jerry
Bowdrey
44-45 Bats in Essex in 2002 John Dobson
45-46 Recent observations on the Black Oil Beetle Meloe proscarabaeus (L.) (Coleoptera: Meloidae)
in North Essex Jerry Bowdrey
47-48 Some Coleoptera of conservation interest recorded from north-east Essex (V.C.19) in 2002
Jerry Bowdrey
49 Lesne's Earwig Forficula lesnei Finot (Dermaptera: Forficulidae) at Thorpe-le-Soken Jerry
Bowdrey
50 Leopoldius brevirostris (Germar) (Diptera: Conopidae), new to Essex Neil Harvey
51-52 Essex bumblebee report 2002 Ted Benton
52-53 2002 update on Odynerus simillimus in north-east Essex David Scott
54-60 Review of the Lepidoptera of Essex for the year 2002 Brian Goodey
60-61 Essex dragonfly report for 2002 Ted Benton & John Dobson
62-66 Orthoptera and allied insects of Essex 2002 Tim Gardiner
CONSERVATION AND MANAGEMENT
67-82 Resurvey of the corticolous lichen flora of Epping Forest P.W. James & L. Davies
83-91 Habitat preferences of three Chorthippus species (Orthoptera: Acrididae) in the Chelmsford
area Tim Gardiner, Michelle Pye & Robin Field
Essex Wildlife Trust focus
92-101 Species recording at Abbotts Hall Farm, Great Wigborough Neil Harvey & Adrian Knowles
102-107 A management tool for monitoring the botanical condition of Essex Wildlife Trust grassland
nature reserves Andrew May
108-110 The largest coastal re-alignment in Europe - occurred in Essex Andrew May
STATUS, DISTRIBUTION AND IDENTIFICATION
111-114 Notes on Essex Specialities. 8: the fifty year history of Orobanche crenata Forskal, the
Carnation-scented (Bean) Broomrape in Essex Ken Adams
115-134 Essex erratic boulders: a gazetteer Gerald Lucy
135-148 The gasteroid fungi of Essex Tony Boniface
149-152 The vascular plant flora of the anthills at Old Hall Marshes Terri Tarpey
153-158 A review of the Palmate Newt Triturus helveticus (Razoumoski, 1798) in Essex Jonathan
Cranfield
159-176 The Otter Lutra lutra in Essex 1996-2002 Sheila MacDonald & Christopher Mason
177-229 The woodland flora of the Forest of Writtle and surrounding area Graham Smith
230-231 The fungi of Fryerning Churchyard, 2002 update Graham Smith
232-234 An update on the distribution of the Oxlip Primula elatior (L.) Hill in Essex Ray Tabor
235-236 Copris lunaris (L.) (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea) in Essex? Jerry Bowdrey
Front cover photograph A polished slab of puddingstone from Stanway © Gerald Lucy