| Editorial | | 1 |
| Spotlight on: Ipswich Museum | Jeff Martin | 2 |
| East Anglian Plain natural area profile | Nick Sibbett | 9 |
| Dragonflies versus flying ants | Rob Parker | 8 |
| Survey update | Nick Sibbett | 9 |
| Look out – Stag beetles about | Colin Hawes | 10 |
| Butterflies in Suffolk – 1997 | Richard Stewart | 11 |
| Native Black Poplars in Suffolk | Sue Hooton | 13 |
| Conference '97 | Eric Parsons | 14 |
| The naturalists' calendar of events | | 16 |
| The Bridal | Alasdair Aston | 19 |
| In search of Suffolk's dragons and damsels | Steve Goddard | 20 |
| Mammal tracks | Jeff Martin | 22 |
| Suffolk Bird Report | Gary Lowe | 24 |
| Geological notes | Bob Markham | 25 |
| Newslines | | 29 |
| An earwig from Sarawak | Geoff Heathcote | 30 |
| SNS press and publicity officer | Peter Ling | 30 |
| An Essex survey bonus | Colin Hawes | 31 |
| Anyone got a 44? | Nigel Odin | 31 |
| Situations vacant | Jeff Martin | 32 |
| 'Poached' eggs! | Ivan Quarton | 33 |
| Heathersett Lake | Richard Stewart | 34 |
| Letters, Notes & Queries: Coming to the light | Michael Chinery | 35 |
| Letters, Notes & Queries: More than one | Ray Ruffell | 35 |
| Letters, Notes & Queries: Earwigging | Alasdair Aston | 35 |
| Letters, Notes & Queries: Buffer zones (1) | Derek Moore | 36 |
| Letters, Notes & Queries: Buffer zones (2) | Ron Hartley | 38 |
| Letters, Notes & Queries: Bentley woods and Claude Morley | Alasdair Aston | 38 |
| Letters, Notes & Queries: Tetrad maps of hedgehogs | John A. Burton | 38 |
| Letters, Notes & Queries: Hedgehogs and map scales | Martin Sanford | 39 |
| Records please: Erinacaeus europaeus | | 40 |
