This picture proves at least one successful breeding event is happening in 2026
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This very large fly has been hanging around my garden. Does it bite humans?
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This snail is not a lad, or indeed a lassie. Garden snails are all hermaphrodite
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This unexpected visitor crashed my daughter’s post-Leaving Cert party
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This beautiful orchid is growing in our suburban front lawn
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I was surprised to see this visitor on my evening river walk
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This pair of centipedes was looking to escape the paparazzi
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My cat brought this into the house. What is it?
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We have an asylum of cuckoos here in west Clare
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What could interest a bee in this astroturf in Athenry?
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They’re brown, hairy and known as woolly bears here in Ireland but don’t panic
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What is this growth coming from my electric socket in Dublin?
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I spotted a seabird perched in a tree. Is this a mad Dublin abnormality?
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