This insect looks a like twig when resting – what is it?

Eye on Nature: Your notes and queries for Ethna Viney

Super grass: the arching, architectural forms of wild meadows

Michael Viney: Wild grasses have loved the mood swings of our climate this year

The Dublin Mountains Makeover: Ireland’s largest ever forest transformation

Over the next few decades, nine commercial forests will be converted to purely recreational areas

Between cliff and sea: The curious trail of a puffin

Another Life: As one of many of the world’s declining seabirds, puffins are now receiving much more necessary and serious attention

What is this jellyfish with nasty-looking stingers? Readers’ nature queries

Ethna Viney on rove beetles, moths and a damselfly

This insect makes a distinctive humming sound – what is it?

Eye on Nature: Your notes and queries for Ethna Viney

Alice and Jack Tyler: America’s first environmental power couple

Another Life: A new book on the founders of the Tyler Prize shows their political influence

Spotted flycatcher is less likely to be spotted with each passing year

Avian science journal Ibis reports ‘great conservation concern’ about the species

What’s this pretty moth with the long snout? Readers’ nature queries

Ethna Viney on the elephant hawkmoth, giant house spider and the rare ant beetle

The Irish farmers peering into cow pats for precious dung beetles

Another Life: Dairy farmer Bruce Thompson examines impact of worming drug on beetles

Eye on Nature: ‘We saw a proud mum with her cygnets’

Your notes and queries for Ethna Viney

Phoenix Park in lockdown: Buzzing with wildlife

Conor Pope discovers why the birds seem to be singing louder during the pandemic

Did you spy the orcas in Strangford Lough? Readers’ nature queries

Ethna Viney on rare sightings in Co Down, shrews’ company and the cockchafer beetle

Conquering Everest on a Mayo ridge for a good cause

Michael Viney: Crumbling hilltop trig pillars’ played key role in the mapping of Ireland

What is this creature we found in a rockpool?

Eye on Nature: Your notes and queries for Ethna Viney

The foreign invaders decimating North’s worm population

Antipodean flatworms pose risk to indigenous variety which could have severe knock-on effects

Wildlife on the waterways: a guide for city dwellers

Otters, kingfishers and dragonflies just some of the creatures to be found along our rivers

Lonely lapwings and the secret world of non-breeders

Another Life: Some floaters circle territories and sneak the odd ‘extra-pair copulation’

What is this moth with beautiful markings? Readers’ nature queries

Ethna Viney on butterflies, spiders, a rose with many buds and a visiting pine marten

Does it matter whether my plants listen to Mozart or Bach?

Michael Viney: Plant intelligence rests in the ways by which they solve their problems

Red admiral or painted lady? Get to know your butterflies

These colourful, fascinating creatures are worth keeping an eye out for

‘Is it possible a cuckoo pushed eggs out of another bird’s nest?’

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What is this strange slug-like creature? Readers’ nature queries

Ethna Viney on invasive flatworms, the delightful wood mouse and varied carpet beetle

Getting out into nature with a good blog

Using our online devices as windows to the broader worlds from which we find ourselves excluded during the Covid-19 restrictions

David Attenborough gives humankind one last chance

A Life on Our Planet is a terrifying catalogue of our self-sabotaging transgressions

Have Howth’s red squirrels succumbed to invasive greys?

Greys carry squirrel-pox virus which is fatal to Ireland’s native reds

My goldfish are assaulted by frogs. Readers’ nature queries

Reeve’s pheasant, horsetail, a worm-like thing and false puffball slime mould

Cloud appreciation: The pleasure of watching the sky go by

‘A moment each day with your head in the clouds helps keep your feet on the ground’

The rapid decline of the restless, chirruping house sparrow

Another Life: The disappearance of this bird from cities has prompted much research

What’s this weird worm? Readers’ nature queries

Ethna Viney on a tapeworm from the land down under and regurgitated owl pellets

When the zoo shuts its gates

We can’t visit Dublin Zoo but we can learn how zoos breed animals to be reintroduced into the wild

A jaw bone was washed up on the beach. Can you identify it? Readers’ nature queries

Lizards, a cormorant, a butterfly, and a visiting heron

Tim Robinson created a unique ecological chronicle of Ireland

Robinson has followed Mairéad, his wife and collaborator, into the list of Covid-19 fatalities

Garden birds to see and hear without leaving home

Use this chance to get to know the species that come to almost every garden daily

We’ve gone from housing hens to online supermarket dependency

Will Covid-19 begin a resurgence of the 1970s withdrawal from growth-driven capitalism?

Backyard biodiversity: The garden guide to nature

Learn how to identify flowers, butterflies and bees in #SpeciesADay campaign

What is this creature we found on the beach? Readers’ nature queries

Ethna Viney on sea cucumbers, porpoises and destructive badgers

How was amplexus for you, dear? Your nature queries answered

Ethna Viney on frog mating and whether grey squirrels are gaining the upper paw

The natural pleasures of longer days

The clocks go forward during this pause between late winter and early spring

Both badgers and humans waiting on security from plague

Greater industry involvement required if bovine TB to be eliminated by 2030 target

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