Why did a fox come into my garden and steal 40 standard golf balls, but leave a bunch of plastic ones?
Éanna Ní Lamhna on a garden thief, the darter dragonfly, and – cough, cough – rook pellets
What is this hairy creature I found clinging to a jumper on my washing line?
Eanna Ní Lamhna addresses your notes and queries, and explains how badgers could help save potatoes
An otter spotter’s paradise in Co Donegal
Éanna Ní Lamhna on the limitations of Google, the kestrel’s talent for spotting mouse pee, and a very large caterpillar
Grey squirrels don’t hibernate and they’d be nuts to eat conkers
Eanna Ní Lamhna debunks a squirrel myth, confirms there are no toads in Malahide and identifies an old Donegal coral
Why is this slug looking particularly sluggish?
Éanna Ní Lamhna on a worse-for-wear black slug, a case of mistaken ID, and the sparrowhawk’s hunting regimen
What are these these pretty seeds I recently came across
Éanna Ní Lamhna on white-tailed bumblebees, red latticed stinkhorns and – more stink – green shield bugs
What is this paint-splashed butterfly?
Éanna Ní Lamhna on mating white-tailed bumblebees, going bananas, and an unusually beautiful insect
Why this crab must be a mating super stud
Éanna Ní Lamhna on a rare glossy long-legged spider, the declining yellowhammer and the common earwig
There have only been seven Irish records of this huge moth, the last in 1997
Éanna Ní Lamhna on the oleander moth, a fine feather and a fish that could bite a finger off
Can you identify this little creature?
Eanna Ní Lamhna on field mice, voles, caterpillars, sparrowhawks and more
A jay with messy feathers, and a bumblebee dishevelled after a night out
Eye on Nature: Eanna Ní Lamhna on red leaves on oak trees and a moth that is flourishing in Dublin
Ladybirds and their lunches
Éanna Ní Lamhna on cuttlefish, New Zealand flax and the by-the-wind sailor
The pine marten population is recovering and becoming widespread
Éanna Ní Lamhna on an escaped diamond dove pigeon, sea slaters and red ants
Are these not the best parents, mother carrying chick while father feeds it?
Eye on Nature: A hoverfly on Pallenis maritima, tracking of foxes with GPS radio collars, a successful takeover by wasps and a Common pipistrele bat
A good day for Google’s moth-spotting credentials
Éanna Ní Lamhna on a clean bill of health for a fulmar, a spider close up, and a troubling abundance of jellyfish at Kilkeel