Next spring these swans will be driven away by their formerly loving parents
Eanna Ní Lamhna on an extremely tiny plant feeder, a heated standoff on the Dodder and a rare presence in Wicklow
The stain on your fingers from the bleeding aphids will go after a few days
Éanna Ní Lamhna on the rarely seen great bittern, a very irritating caterpillar, and the beautiful green lacewing
This red fungus has been rarely recorded in Ireland
Éanna Ní Lamhna on the red latticed stinkhorn, spotted snake millipedes and a possible rare Irish sighting of a funnelweb spider web
This ghostly creature landed on my window earlier this month. What is it?
Your creepy crawlies, witchy woods and slithery creatures identified by Éanna Ní Lamhna
This guillemot might survive after a rest - unless it has bird flu
Éanna Ní Lamhna on dog vomit slime, the forest shield bug and birch sawfly larvae
Two dragonflies tied up in afternoon delight in Cork
Éanna Ní Lamhna on Grey Dagger moth, Puffball mushrooms and Redshanks
Phallus impudicus: the Latin name of the Stinkhorn fungus tells it like it is
Éanna Ní Lamhna on the harvestman, nest-box etiquette, and the flower crab spider
A reader’s most excellent photograph of the noble false widow spider
Éanna Ní Lamhna on the white saddle fungus, the curlew sandpiper influx and the rose chafer
Curlew in flight: Draining and cutting of bogs has destroyed their breeding habitat
Your notes and queries for Éanna Ní Lamhna
Keep an eye out for the garden spider this autumn
Éanna Ní Lamhna on the forest shield bug, the autumn hawker and robin not-yet-redbreast
This female only stick insect arrived in Ireland from New Zealand in the 1960s
Éanna Ní Lamhna on robin’s pincushion, an Irish mosquito, and a rare puffin snack
Is it a seed, a shell or a chocolate macaron?
Éanna Ní Lamhna on the sea-bean, the goat moth caterpillar and the large red damselfly
I was wrong when I said Asian hornets were not found in Ireland ...
Eanna Ní Lamhna answers readers’ question about curious wildlife spotted around the country
Eye on Nature: ‘We saw these translucent blobs on the beach in Rosslare. What are they?’
Éanna Ní Lamhna identifies curious wildlife spotted by readers from around the country
I say, these butterflies look rather busy
Éanna Ní Lamhna on mating rituals, a shrew having a bad fur day, and a fine photograph of a hummingbird hawkmoth















