Species surveys
The County Recorders and the Essex Field Club are always involved in the survey of sites and species in Essex (see for example our meetings) and maintain county records as an ongoing process. However sometimes particular efforts are targeted towards certain groups of plants, animals or sites, and here all Field Club members, other naturalists and members of the public can help.
Many species of plant and animal are difficult to identify without considerable experience and/or microscopical examination, but we have been trying out data entry via the internet with a few species which are especially characteristic or easily recognisable. YOU CAN HELP! Since you can upload pictures to support your record we need you to register and then be logged-on to do this.
MOST OF YEAR
- new garden bumblebee Bombus hypnorum
- Harlequin Ladybird
- some common ladybirds
- Honey Bee
- Rose chafer survey, Cetonia aurata larvae can be found all the year round
- Daddy long legs spider Pholcus phalangioides
- Garden centre spider Uloborus plumipes
- Woodlouse Spider Dysdera crocata
- Spitting Spider Scytodes thoracica
- False widow spider Steatoda bipunctata, a scaffold web spider
- False widow spider Steatoda nobilis, a scaffold web spider
- House spiders in Essex and a further appeal
- Veteran Tree Group
- Bees wasps and ants survey
- Stag beetle larvae survey Lucanus cervus
- Dark-edged Bee Fly - have you seen this fly?
- Spring Flower Bee - have you seen this bee?
- Cuckoo bee Melecta albifrons
- Tawny mining bee in gardens
- Frog survey - send in your records
- Phenological network

- Lily beetle in a garden near you?
- Rosemary Beetle - have you seen this beetle?
- Green Tiger Beetle
- a new froghopper survey
- Hedgehog records
- rose chafer survey, Cetonia aurata imagos are out mostly from April till August
- Slow-worm survey
- Crab spider Misumena vatia
- Zebra Spider Salticus scenicus
- Stag Beetle survey
- Scarlet Malachite Beetle
- a new bumblebee recording scheme by Buglife

- Essex dragonfly survey
- Glow-worm survey
- Wasp Spider Argiope bruennichi
- Garden Spider Araneus diadematus
- A cribellate spider Nigma walckenaeri
- Southern Green Shieldbug
