What is this strange growth outside Cork University Hospital?
Éanna Ní Lamhna on fungi, a marine worm and whooper swans
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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 drake
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 insects
Eel or rare river lamprey? Something comes a-slithering from the stream
Éanna Ní Lamhna on a German wasp, a ruby tiger moth caterpillar, and a Cormorant on the Dodder
These might look like storybook mushrooms. But there’ll be no happily-ever-after if you eat them
Éanna Ní Lamhna on a dead 6ft leatherback turtle, a red garden spider, and the flowering lives of dandelions
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
What is this moth and why is it red?
Éanna Ní Lamhna on the native Irish honeybee, oozing slime and a frog’s life
This insect clung to the windscreen of my car for more than a kilometre. Readers’ nature queries
Eanna Ní Lamhna on hoverflies, northern bobwhites and green shield bugs
Razorbills strike back after Star Wars takeover of Skellig Michael
Éanna Ní Lamhna on an irritating native moth, the click beetle and the thunderworm
I took a photo of a bird swallowing an eel head first in Dublin
Éanna Ní Lamhna on a frightening moth, baby spiders and fairweather mates
Just another youth making demands of its careworn parent
Éanna Ní Lamhna on song thrushes, a masked crab, and a German tourist that never went home
What is this creature I found under a greenhouse pot? Readers’ nature queries
Eanna Ní Lamhna on woodlouse, hoopoe, mallards, spider crabs and the female crab spider
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 spit
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 shark
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 weevils
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 shrews
The life of the aptly named stink bug
Éanna Ní Lamhna on a foul-smelling insect, a camouflaging caterpillar and the Irish spread of the buzzard
If you have this ivy in Ireland, try planting a seed from the berry to see if it breeds true
Eye on Nature: Éanna Ní Lamhna on the comma butterfly, the eggs of a flightless moth, and an ivy recorded in Offaly for the first time
What a beauty: rare moth sighted in Connemara
Éanna Ní Lamhna on winter gnats, a goldfinch-canary hybrid and insect biodiversity
Ethna Viney obituary: Irish Times nature columnist, environmental and feminist
When Michael Viney’s second column An Eye on Nature answering readers queries began, Ethna ran it for years under his name until she was finally acknowledged as the author
Former Irish Times columnist Ethna Viney dies aged 95
Author was a feminist, economist and environmentalist who wrote the weekly Eye on Nature column for 33 years
If this lichen is growing in your area, it means the air you breathe is clean
Éanna Ní Lamhna on dead worms, an interesting beetle and a washed-up dolphin
Keep an eye out for the dastardly harlequin ladybird
Éanna Ní Lamhna on honeybee pub crawls, rare yellowhammers and pied wagtails
What is to blame for this gannet’s unusual stillness?
Éanna Ní Lamhna on blooming heather, an aggro blue tit and a stunning basking shark
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 more
What is this snake-like fish I found washed up on the beach?
Your notes and queries for Eanna Ní Lamhna
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 tit
Don’t feed the herring gulls, even if they are in decline
Éanna Ní Lamhna on the crossbill, a Japanese ladybird and an early-leafing horse chestnut
Yellowhammer birds have declined almost 60% in Ireland over the last 20 years
Éanna Ní Lamhna on insulated trees, a colourful fungus and a beach skeleton
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 tour
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 fungus
Why are Irish robins so much tamer than Polish ones?
Éanna Ní Lamhna on a hitchhiking wasp, a three-cornered leek and a Curragh fungus
What makes this washed-up octopus lesser?
Éanna Ní Lamhna on a singular mushroom, beach craters and an ‘ugly’ spider
Hang in there, squirrel: reader catches a thief in the act
Éanna Ní Lamhna on an invasive flatworn, the ocean’s bounty and an early leafing hawthorn tree
The red kite is a rare nature success story of recent times
Éanna Ní Lamhna on a black-headed gull, a nursery web spider and a lichen-sporting car
Can you identify this scary looking arachnid?
Eanna Ní Lamhna on ladybugs, spiders, mushrooms and more
Súil ar an dúlra: Read Éanna Ní Lamhna’s Eye on Nature column as Gaeilge
Your notes and queries for Éanna Ní Lamhna
What is this red mushroom I spotted on a woodland walk? Readers’ nature queries
Eye on Nature: Eanna Ní Lamhna on fly agaric mushrooms, hedgehogs, mandarin ducks, robins and holly berries
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