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Essex Naturalist volume (N.S.) No. 41 (2024) £15.00

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

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1-4 Martin John Gregory (1941–2022) Draughtsman, Mycologist and Essex Naturalist Compiled by Bill George
4-7 Roger Graham Payne 15 January 1949 – 28 February 2024 John Skinner
8-32 Deepest water London Clay nautiloids and burrows Roger A. Hewitt
WILDLIFE REVIEW OF THE YEAR
33-34 Another record of the Common Dolphin Delphinus delphis Linn., 1758 in Essex John Dobson
35-39 Some Essex mammals in 2023/2024 John Dobson
40-41 Dendrochernes cyrneus (L.Koch, 1873) (Arachnida: Chernetidae) New to Essex Simon Wood
42 The beetle Pyrrhidium sanguineum (Linnaeus, 1758) (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae ) new to Essex Simon Wood
43-44 Pilemostoma fastuosum (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae), a beetle new to Essex Robert Smith
45-46 Recent records of Osphya bipunctata (Fabricius, 1775) (Coleoptera: Melandryidae) from Hazeleigh Wood, Maldon Simon Wood
46 Discovery of Aulacobaris coerulescens (Coleoptera, Curculionidae): a new weevil species to Essex Johnnie Johnson
47 A recent record of Hybomitra expollicata (Pandellé, 1883) (Diptera, Tabanidae) in north-east Essex Adrian Knowles
48 The fly Crossopalpus abditus Kovalev, 1972 (Diptera: Hybotidae) new to Essex and Britain Adrian Knowles
49-51 First record of the scuttle fly Megaselia rufipes (Meigen) in a Rose Chafer Cetonia aurata (L.) larva Maria Fremlin & R H.L. Disney
52 Phytomyza hendeli Hering, 1923 (Diptera: Agromyzidae) New to Essex Simon Wood
53-54 Diptera in Hazeleigh Wood, Maldon in 2019 Simon Wood
55-57 Hoplocampa ariae Benson, 1933 (Hymenoptera: Tenthredinidae) - a new sawfly to Essex Daniel Blyton
57-58 Pemphredon austriaca (Kohl, 1888) (Hymenoptera, Crabronidae) New to Essex Adrian Knowles
59 The cockroach Ectobius vittiventris (A. Costa, 1847) (Blattodea: Ectobidae) new to Essex Simon Wood
60-61 Essex Butterfly Report 2023 Robert Smith
62-64 A record of Cephimallota crassiflavella Bruand 1851, New to Essex, in Dovercourt, Harwich, North Essex J.H. Symonds & E. O’Hanlon
65-114 Essex moth highlights 2023 Dougal Urquhart
115-127 Moths new to Essex 2023 Chris Lewis
CONSERVATION & MANAGEMENT
128-131 Ecology, Conservation and Challenges of the Bullhead Cottus gobio in Essex Johnnie Johnson
132-142 What does Nature Recovery mean and is Citizen Science meaningful? A discussion Tony Thorn
STATUS, DISTRIBUTION and IDENTIFICATION
143-148 Flint tools from the eastern Southend-on-Sea recharged beach Roger A. Hewitt
149-151 Observations on Saltmarsh Horsefly Atylotus latistriatus in Wivenhoe, North Essex Dr Chris Gibson & Jude Gibson
152-154 Rearing Fallen’s Leatherbug Arenocoris falleni and the Small Grass Shieldbug Neottiglossa pusilla Yvonne Couch
155-228 Dagnam Park, Common Bird Census 1972 Del Smith
TRANSACTIONS
229-232 Annual Report of Council for 2023-24
233 Income & expenditure Account year ended for 2023
234 Balance sheet as at 31 December 2023
235-236 Independent examiner's report to the Council of the Essex Field Club
237-247 Essex Field Club exhibition and social 2023 Compiled by Yvonne Couch; photos by Bill George
248 Guidance for contributors
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