Presidents Letter								 1
Editorial									 1
Tidal Stream Power for Islands?							 2
Redressing the Balance - Year 5							 6
Orkney Field Club House martin Project - Report On First Year (2001)		 8
An Accidentally Introduced Spider, Steatoda 					11
The Velvet Swimming Crab: Necora puber, Part 1 					13
The Strange Case of the Stronsay Beast 						15
On the Status of Ursa domesticus L. subsp. Orcadensis (Ocb) In Orkney 		18
A Late Orkney Gossamer Day With Diplocephala permixtus 				19
Orkney Marine Mollusca 								20
New Fungal Records for Orkney 							23
Now You See It - Now You Don't 							27
Orkney Lichens - You Lose One, perhaps Gain One? 				28
Bats 2001 Records 								29
Amphibia Records 2001 								30
Fish Records 2001 								31
Cetacean Report 2001 								31
Reptilia 2001 									34
Jellyfish 									34
Two Previously Unrecorded Beetle Records for Orkney 				35
Lepidoptera Report for 2000 and 2001 						37
Wasps 2001 									39
Dragonflies in Orkney 								40
Status of Bumblebee Species in Orkney 						42
Bumblebee Records - 2001 							44
Plant Records - 2001 								46
Chara Records 2001 								50
Report of Annual general Meeting 						51
Recorders & Recording, Orkney, VC111, 2002 Update 				53
Orkney Field Club Statement of Accounts 					56