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
Hang in there, squirrel: reader catches a thief in the actÉanna Ní Lamhna on an invasive flatworn, the ocean’s bounty and an early leafing hawthorn treeSat Jan 20 2024 - 05:00
The red kite is a rare nature success story of recent timesÉanna Ní Lamhna on a black-headed gull, a nursery web spider and a lichen-sporting carSat Jan 13 2024 - 04:45
Can you identify this scary looking arachnid? Eanna Ní Lamhna on ladybugs, spiders, mushrooms and moreSat Jan 06 2024 - 05:00
Súil ar an dúlra: Read Éanna Ní Lamhna’s Eye on Nature column as GaeilgeYour notes and queries for Éanna Ní LamhnaSat Dec 30 2023 - 06:00
