Why does this white gull seem to have black spots on its tail? Eanna Ní Lamhna on gulls, the amethyst deceiver and caterpillars of the pine processionary mothSat Jan 11 2025 - 05:00
What is this curious creature found on shore after Storm Ashley?Éanna Ní Lamhna on fungus lining a lakeside path, a plant used as a laxative and diuretic, and unsegmented thunderwormsSat Jan 04 2025 - 04:53
This lovely lone robin has been singing plaintively in my gardenÉanna Ní Lamhna on the territorial robin, abundant-berry folklore and the unusual-looking but harmless triggerfishSat Dec 28 2024 - 05:00
What is this strange growth outside Cork University Hospital?Éanna Ní Lamhna on fungi, a marine worm and whooper swansSat Dec 14 2024 - 05:00
What is this bird that our cat chased into the house?Éanna Ní Lamhna identifies a number of creatures and explains the odd colouring of a mallard drakeWed Dec 04 2024 - 05:00
What are these three fox cubs doing on the roof of my shed?Éanna Ní Lamhna on a finch nest, the great pond snail and water-skating insectsSat Nov 30 2024 - 05:00
Eel or rare river lamprey? Something comes a-slithering from the streamÉanna Ní Lamhna on a German wasp, a ruby tiger moth caterpillar, and a Cormorant on the DodderSat Nov 23 2024 - 05:00
These might look like storybook mushrooms. But there’ll be no happily-ever-after if you eat themÉanna Ní Lamhna on a dead 6ft leatherback turtle, a red garden spider, and the flowering lives of dandelionsSat Nov 16 2024 - 05:00
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 pelletsSat Nov 09 2024 - 05:00
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 potatoesSat Nov 02 2024 - 05:00
An otter spotter’s paradise in Co DonegalÉanna Ní Lamhna on the limitations of Google, the kestrel’s talent for spotting mouse pee, and a very large caterpillarSat Oct 26 2024 - 05:00
Grey squirrels don’t hibernate and they’d be nuts to eat conkersEanna Ní Lamhna debunks a squirrel myth, confirms there are no toads in Malahide and identifies an old Donegal coralSat Oct 19 2024 - 05:00
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 regimenSat Oct 12 2024 - 05:00
What are these these pretty seeds I recently came acrossÉanna Ní Lamhna on white-tailed bumblebees, red latticed stinkhorns and – more stink – green shield bugsSat Oct 05 2024 - 05:00
What is this paint-splashed butterfly?Éanna Ní Lamhna on mating white-tailed bumblebees, going bananas, and an unusually beautiful insectSat Sept 28 2024 - 05:00
Why this crab must be a mating super studÉanna Ní Lamhna on a rare glossy long-legged spider, the declining yellowhammer and the common earwigSat Sept 21 2024 - 05:00
There have only been seven Irish records of this huge moth, the last in 1997Éanna Ní Lamhna on the oleander moth, a fine feather and a fish that could bite a finger offSat Sept 14 2024 - 05:00
Can you identify this little creature?Eanna Ní Lamhna on field mice, voles, caterpillars, sparrowhawks and moreSat Sept 07 2024 - 05:00
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 DublinSat Aug 31 2024 - 05:00
Ladybirds and their lunchesÉanna Ní Lamhna on cuttlefish, New Zealand flax and the by-the-wind sailorSat Aug 24 2024 - 05:00
The pine marten population is recovering and becoming widespreadÉanna Ní Lamhna on an escaped diamond dove pigeon, sea slaters and red antsSat Aug 17 2024 - 05:00
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 batSat Aug 10 2024 - 05:00
A good day for Google’s moth-spotting credentialsÉanna Ní Lamhna on a clean bill of health for a fulmar, a spider close up, and a troubling abundance of jellyfish at KilkeelSat Aug 03 2024 - 05:00
What is this moth and why is it red?Éanna Ní Lamhna on the native Irish honeybee, oozing slime and a frog’s lifeSat Jul 27 2024 - 05:00
This insect clung to the windscreen of my car for more than a kilometre. Readers’ nature queriesEanna Ní Lamhna on hoverflies, northern bobwhites and green shield bugsSat Jul 20 2024 - 05:00
Razorbills strike back after Star Wars takeover of Skellig MichaelÉanna Ní Lamhna on an irritating native moth, the click beetle and the thunderwormSat Jul 13 2024 - 05:00
I took a photo of a bird swallowing an eel head first in DublinÉanna Ní Lamhna on a frightening moth, baby spiders and fairweather matesSat Jul 06 2024 - 05:00
Just another youth making demands of its careworn parentÉanna Ní Lamhna on song thrushes, a masked crab, and a German tourist that never went homeSat Jun 29 2024 - 05:00
What is this creature I found under a greenhouse pot? Readers’ nature queriesEanna Ní Lamhna on woodlouse, hoopoe, mallards, spider crabs and the female crab spiderSat Jun 22 2024 - 05:00
What are these colourful doughnuts that were found on seaweed?Éanna Ní Lamhna on crow pellets, a chimney mystery and the true nature of cuckoo spitSat Jun 15 2024 - 05:00
Why does this hard-working bird have a handlebar moustache?Éanna Ní Lamhna on a dulled female bullfinch, Ireland’s only red damselfly and an eternally basking sharkSat Jun 08 2024 - 05:00
What is this delicate umbellifer, which was growing quite abundantly in an old disused graveyard?Eye on Nature: Éanna Ní Lamhna on ermine moths, rove beetles, pignuts and weevilsSat Jun 01 2024 - 05:00
What is the name of this tree with gorgeous berries on the Wicklow Way? Eye on Nature: Éanna Ní Lamhna on emperor moths, great tits and white-toothed shrewsSat May 25 2024 - 05:00
The life of the aptly named stink bugÉanna Ní Lamhna on a foul-smelling insect, a camouflaging caterpillar and the Irish spread of the buzzardSat May 18 2024 - 05:00
If you have this ivy in Ireland, try planting a seed from the berry to see if it breeds trueEye on Nature: Éanna Ní Lamhna on the comma butterfly, the eggs of a flightless moth, and an ivy recorded in Offaly for the first timeSat May 11 2024 - 05:00
What a beauty: rare moth sighted in ConnemaraÉanna Ní Lamhna on winter gnats, a goldfinch-canary hybrid and insect biodiversitySat May 04 2024 - 05:00
If this lichen is growing in your area, it means the air you breathe is cleanÉanna Ní Lamhna on dead worms, an interesting beetle and a washed-up dolphinSat Apr 27 2024 - 03:00
Keep an eye out for the dastardly harlequin ladybirdÉanna Ní Lamhna on honeybee pub crawls, rare yellowhammers and pied wagtailsSat Apr 20 2024 - 05:00
What is to blame for this gannet’s unusual stillness?Éanna Ní Lamhna on blooming heather, an aggro blue tit and a stunning basking sharkSat Apr 13 2024 - 05:00
What laid this cluster of jelly-like egg sacs?Your notes and queries for Eanna Ní LamhnaSat Apr 06 2024 - 05:00
I found this spider walking around my desk at home... Is it dangerous? Eanna Ní Lamhna on house spiders, chicken of the woods fungus, newts and moreSat Mar 30 2024 - 05:00
What is this snake-like fish I found washed up on the beach? Your notes and queries for Eanna Ní LamhnaSat Mar 23 2024 - 06:00
Eye on Nature: ‘The coal tit has two faint whiteish wing bars, whereas it is just one in the great tit’Coal tits have a large white patch on the back of the head and the nape, which is entirely lacking in the great titSat Mar 16 2024 - 05:00
Don’t feed the herring gulls, even if they are in declineÉanna Ní Lamhna on the crossbill, a Japanese ladybird and an early-leafing horse chestnutSat Mar 09 2024 - 05:00
Yellowhammer birds have declined almost 60% in Ireland over the last 20 yearsÉanna Ní Lamhna on insulated trees, a colourful fungus and a beach skeletonSat Mar 02 2024 - 05:00
Eye on Nature: ‘Is there a hierarchy of wildlife?’Your notes and queries for Eanna Ní LamhnaSat Feb 24 2024 - 05:00
Eye on Nature: Have you heard a woodpecker in Bushy Park?Éanna Ní Lamhna on a now-common sound in Ireland, a wormy correction and geese on tourSat Feb 17 2024 - 05:00
Why are hedgehogs on the move at all times of day and night?Éanna Ní Lamhna on a blue-tit hotel, a disturbed bumblebee and a slimy fungusSat Feb 10 2024 - 05:00
Why are Irish robins so much tamer than Polish ones?Éanna Ní Lamhna on a hitchhiking wasp, a three-cornered leek and a Curragh fungusSat Feb 03 2024 - 05:00
What makes this washed-up octopus lesser?Éanna Ní Lamhna on a singular mushroom, beach craters and an ‘ugly’ spiderSat Jan 27 2024 - 05:00
