Publication contents

1 Subscription reminder

1 Essex Field Club car stickers and handlenses

1 Conservation programme at St. Thomas Church, Noak Hill - a request

1 Peter Harvey An update for Essex spider and aculeate Hymenoptera maps

2 Mark Hanson President's Page

3 Essex Field Club Annual General Meeting 125, to be held Sat. 12th March 2005

4-6 Mary Smith Proposed new Rules for the Essex Field Club

7-10 Mary Smith A wildlife diary

11-13 Neil Harvey The Dark-edged Beefly Bombylius major in Essex - a review of distribution

13 Chris Romer Acorn crop in Chelmsford area

14-17 Ken Adams Red glands and spiny hairs on English/Atinian Elm and the documented history of the tree

17-18 Paul Mabbott Harmonia axyridis - a potential ecological disaster in Britain?

19 Jerry Bowdrey Unusual abundance of the long-winged form of Roesel's Bush Cricket Metrioptera roeselii (Hagenbach) form diluta in 2004

20-21 Graham Smith A botanical conundrum

21-23 Jon Cranfield and David Scott Amphibian and reptile report for 2004

23-24 Graham Smith Fungus foray to Stoneymore & Deerslade Woods, Mill Green on 5th October 2004 led by Tony Boniface and Graham Smith

25-26 Mary Smith EFC fungus foray on 9th October 2004 to Davey Down

27 Tony Boniface New red data book species for Little Leighs Churchyard

27-28 Tony Boniface New site of national importance for waxcap fungi

28-29 Tony Boniface Very rare Russula in Crowsheath Wood

29-34 Peter Harvey MAPMATE: the Field Club's preferred choice