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Essex Naturalist volume (N.S.) No. 26 (2009) £10.00

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  • 248 pages, 60 colour plates (24 pages) Editorial Team: Adams, K.; Buell, S.; Connop, S.; Gardiner, T.; George, B.; Gibson, C.; Harvey, P. & Knowles, A. (Eds.) Journal of the Essex Field Club

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1-3 Report of the Essex Field Club for 2008-2009
4 Income and expenditure account for 2008
5 Balance sheet for 2008
6-9 EFC Exhibition and Social 1st December 2008
10-12 The 2009 AGM Address. A synopsis of the South Essex Marshes David Hedges
13-38 Raphael Meldola: Natural selection, the Essex Field Club, and a “magnificent area for
experimental natural history” (Meldola 1880, pp.19-20) Anthony Travis
39-47 Victoria County History update: the state of grasshoppers and crickets (Orthoptera) in Essex
at the beginning of the 21st century Tim Gardiner
WILDLIFE REVIEW OF THE YEAR
48-49 An elusive orchid. Green-flowered Helleborine Epipactis phyllanthes G. E. Sm. in Essex Ken
Adams
50 New waxcap record for Essex: Hygrocybe coccineocrenata Tony Boniface
51-52 Gall Recorder’s Report 2009. Five species of gall inducer believed to be new to the Essex
list Jerry Bowdrey
53 Seahorses in the River Thames Dr Matthew Gollock
54 Edible Dormouse Glis glis, a new species for Essex John Dobson
55 Anthribus fasciatus Först (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea: Anthribidae) in Colchester, Essex
Maria Fremlin
55-56 Ledra aurita - an odd bug Ted Benton & John Dobson
56-57 Nysius huttoni White, 1878 the Wheat Bug (Heteroptera : Lygaeidae), a New Zealand endemic
new to Essex Jerry Bowdrey
57 The crabronid wasp Crossocerus congener (Dahlbom, 1845) new to Essex Adrian Knowles
58-59 The discovery of the micromoth Metriotes lutarea in Marks Hill Wood Nature Reserve: a story
of dogged persistence Rod Cole
59-60 Willow Emerald Lestes viridis record in Essex Roy Cornhill
60 Background note Ted Benton
61-62 The Stripe-winged Grasshopper Stenobothrus lineatus (Panzer, 1796) (Orthoptera:
Gomphocerinae) new to Essex Imogen Wilde
62-63 Southern Oak Bush-cricket Meconema meridionale (Costa) new to Essex Tim Gardiner, Ted
Benton & Peter Harvey
CONSERVATION & MANAGEMENT
64-66 Barberry Berberis vulgaris L. in Essex: a rare hedgerow shrub in decline Tim Gardiner &
Michelle Gardiner
67-88 The use of green haying as targeted habitat management for rare UK bumblebees (Bombus
Latr.) Stuart Connop, Andrew Woodhouse & Phil Shaw
89-91 The Essex Biodiversity Project celebrates ten years! Mark Iley
92-98 The Essex Biodiversity Project cetacean survey 2000-2008: a review J. Merchant & Mark Iley
Essex Wildlife Trust focus
99-112 The geology of Chafford Gorges Nature Park, Thurrock Gerald Lucy
113-139 A botanical survey of Hitchcock’s Meadows EWT Reserve, Danbury Graham Smith
140-145 Essex Wildlife Trust reserves and Nightingales Luscinia megarhynchos: distribution, status,
future? Neil Bedford & Stefanie Buell
145-150 The growth of Oxlip woodland flora, particularly the Oxlip Primula elatior in conditions of
partial woodland shade R.C.C. Tabor
STATUS, DISTRIBUTION and IDENTIFICATION
151-153 Notes on Essex Specialities 14: Extant locations for the Fyfield Pea Lathyrus tuberosus L.
along Norton Lane and the Essex Way Tim Gardiner
154-159 The distribution and status of Crested Cow-wheat Melampyrum cristatum L. in Essex Ken
Adams
159-162 The status of Monotropa hypopitys L. Yellow Bird’s-nest in Essex Ken Adams
163-165 Stranding of Palm Endocarps at Southend-on-Sea R.A. Hewitt
166-208 The marine algal (seaweed) flora of Essex: a synopsis and review Ian Tittley
209-219 Bracket fungi of the Genus Ganoderma in Essex Tony Boniface
220-221 The Fungi of Fryerning Churchyard: 2008 update Graham Smith
222-240 A preliminary list of Essex Diptera. Part 2. Acalyptratae D.A. Smith
241 Corrigenda to Essex Naturalist (New series) 25.
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