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Essex Naturalist volume (N.S.) No. 38 (2021) £15.00

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  • 352 pages colour throughout Editorial Team: Connop, S.; Gardiner, T.; George, B.; Gibson, C.; Harvey, P. & Knowles, A. (Eds.) Journal of the Essex Field Club

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Inside front cover: Guidance for contributors; inside rear cover: publications for sale
1-3 Del (Derek) Arthur Smith 1948 - 2021
4-7 Peter Michael Hammond 1941 - 2021
8-49 A geological field guide to Walton-on-the-Naze and Frinton, Essex Bill George
50-55 Is Essex becoming warmer? Tony Thorn
56-74 Lockdown bees in an urban garden Ted Benton
75-109 Polydora ciliata from inland Stannets Creek and a guide to ancient Southend area churches Roger A. Hewitt
WILDLIFE REVIEW OF THE YEAR
110-140 Essex 2020 Ornithological Summary Howard Vaughan
141-146 Bats in Essex in 2020 John Dobson
147-148 A recent record of the White-beaked Dolphin Lagenorhyncos albirostris Gray, 1846 in Essex John Dobson
149-153 Some Essex mammals in 2020/2021 John Wright & John Dobson
154 An uncommon bolete found in Hylands Park Tony Boniface
155-157 Gall Recorder’s Report 2021, including Aceria tristriata (Nalepa), Aceria brachytarsus (Kieffer) (Acari,
Eriophyoidea), and Ametrodiplosis thalictricola (Rübsaamen) (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae), species new to
Essex Jerry Bowdrey
157 Syntormon mikii Strobl, 1899 (Diptera: Dolichopodidae) new to Essex Adrian Knowles
158-159 The money spider Maso gallicus Simon 1894 (Araneae: Linyphiidae) new to Essex Peter Harvey & Adrian
Knowles
159 Phaeocedus braccatus (L. Koch, 1866) New to Essex David Carr
160-174 Recent records of note and changes in the spiders in Essex Peter Harvey
175-176 Gonioctena fornicata (Bruggemann, 1873) (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) new to Essex and Britain Adrian
Knowles
176-177 The planthopper Dryodurgates antoniae (Melichar, 1907) (Auchenorrhyncha: Cicadellidae) in North Essex
Peter Harvey
178 Graptopeltus lynceus (Heteroptera: Lygaeidae) on the move in Essex? Adrian Knowles & Peter Harvey
179-181 The spread of Rambur’s Pied Shieldbug Tritomegas sexmaculatus in Essex Yvonne Couch
182-183 The use of suction samplers to aid collection of small Hymenoptera including species new to Essex
Adrian Knowles
184-185 Isodontia mexicana at East Beach, Shoeburyness, Essex Marc Outten & Ruth E Mortimer
186-187 The cuckoo bee Stelis odontopyga Noskiewicz, 1926 (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae) new to Essex Peter
Harvey & Adrian Knowles
187-191 Recent records of note and changes in the bees, wasps and ants in Essex Peter Harvey
191-192 The brown lacewing Hemerobius fenestratus Tjeder, 1932 (Hemerobiidae) new to Essex Peter Harvey &
Adrian Knowles
193-195 Photographic monitoring of the Grizzled Skipper butterfly Pyrgus malvae at One Tree Hill, Langdon Hills
Country Park Robert Smith
196-198 Essex Butterfly Report 2020 Robert Smith
199 Psychoides verhuella (Lepidoptera, Tineidae) new to Essex Richard Cope
200-201 An update on Spurge Hawk-moth Hyles euphorbiae (Linnaeus, 1758) in Essex Peter Harvey
202-231 Essex moth highlights 2020 Dougal Urquhart
CONSERVATION & MANAGEMENT
232-242 The Fungi of Sandylay and Moat Woods Mrs Teresa Amory & Tony Boniface
243-255 The state of Dwarf Eelgrass Zostera noltei in the Stour and Orwell estuaries Tim Gardiner
256-280 A biodiversity survey of part of Brightlingsea beach with emphasis on the number of molluscs and the
characteristics of their growth Tony Thorn
281-288 Notes on the ecology and nesting behaviour of the Reed Yellow-faced Bee Hylaeus pectoralis in Essex
Ted Benton
289-296 Symbiosis. What does it really mean? Tony Thorn
297-299 North Thames Gull Group report to Essex Recorders partnership 2021
STATUS, DISTRIBUTION and IDENTIFICATION
300-304 A photographic comparison of the development of Tritomegas bicolor and T. sexmaculatus from egg to
adult Yvonne Couch
305-315 The fungi of Fryerning Churchyard 2016-2020 update Graham Smith
316-335 The beetles of Hatfield Forest Stuart Warrington, Tony Drane, Peter Hammond & Jerry Lee
336-339 A letter from William Cole to Sophia Morrison (1907) Stephen Miller
TRANSACTIONS
340-342 Annual Report of Council for 2020-21
343 Income and Expenditure Account Year ended for 2020
344 Balance sheet as at 31 December 2020
345-346 Independent examiner’s report to the Council of Essex Field Club
347 Essex Field Club Publications
348 Guidance for contributors