Eye on Nature

Éanna Ní Lamhna identifies curious wildlife spotted by readers from around the country

Éanna Ní Lamhna on mating rituals, a shrew having a bad fur day, and a fine photograph of a hummingbird hawkmoth

Éanna Ní Lamhna outlines the plight of a majestic bird and clears up confusion around the ichneumon

Eanna Ní Lamhna on whether a particular ladybird is good or bad, a blackbird with a white head and a rare violet sea snail

Your notes and queries for Éanna Ní Lamhna

Éanna Ní Lamhna on the yellowtail caterpillar, the field grasshopper and a spider known by many names

Eanna Ní Lamhna answers queries on blue tits, navelwort, uniquely Irish butterfies, dogfish egg cases and a pipistrelle bat in a glass

Éanna Ní Lamhna on the colourful bumblebee, declining linnets, and coots in UCD

Your notes and queries for Eanna Ní Lamhna

Your notes and queries for Éanna Ní Lamhna

Éanna Ní Lamhna on the red damselfly, the May bug and the barrel jellyfish

Éanna Ní Lamhna on the common carder bee, a rudely disturbed lizard, and a very fine stonechat photograph

Éanna Ní Lamhna on a golf-watching otter, a fungus called King Alfred’s cakes, and pond skaters

Eanna Ní Lamhna on how to handle moths that want to make a meal of the food in your kitchen, the mice at risk from your lawnmower, and a bee-bashing bird

Éanna Ní Lamhna on apple thieves, the Burren’s strange beauties, and the pheasant’s introduction

Éanna Ní Lamhna on the Leisler’s bat, a clawless crab, and an invasive ladybird

Éanna Ní Lamhna on sand martins, the peacock butterfly and a dead frog

Éanna Ní Lamhna on the hawthorn shield bug, underground bees, and the red-listed yellowhammer

Éanna Ní Lamhna on the scarlet elf cup, plastic pollution and a Kiwi invader

Éanna Ní Lamhna on how to report dead birds, a bone of contention, and an imported lizard

Éanna Ní Lamhna on rats’ incisors, the house martins and a suspicious sparrowhawk

Éanna Ní Lamhna on the smallest bird in Ireland, an invasive moth, and the fluted bird’s nest fungus

Éanna Ní Lamhna identifies and explains readers’ other unusual nature findings

Eanna Ní Lamhna answers readers' queries about jackdaws bearing gifts, a curious shell and a couple of frogs who got carried away

Éanna Ní Lamhna answers your queries on unusual geese, flying sea creatures and unfamiliar fungi

Your notes and queries for Eanna Ní Lamhna

Your notes and queries for Eanna Ní Lamhna

Éanna Ní Lamhna answers your queries on wasp-nest raiders, early-nesting goldfinches and curlew feeding habits

Éanna Ní Lamhna on Irish jays, the blackcap’s call and a non-dinosaur tooth

Éanna Ní Lamhna on a woeful woodcock, a perished pipistrelle bat and a radiant redshank

Éanna Ní Lamhna on the angle shades moth, dog’s vomit mould and strange slime underfoot

Eanna Ní Lamhna on gulls, the amethyst deceiver and caterpillars of the pine processionary moth

Éanna Ní Lamhna on fungus lining a lakeside path, a plant used as a laxative and diuretic, and unsegmented thunderworms

Éanna Ní Lamhna on the territorial robin, abundant-berry folklore and the unusual-looking but harmless triggerfish

Éanna Ní Lamhna on fungi, a marine worm and whooper swans

Éanna Ní Lamhna identifies a number of creatures and explains the odd colouring of a mallard drake

Éanna Ní Lamhna on a finch nest, the great pond snail and water-skating insects

Éanna Ní Lamhna on a German wasp, a ruby tiger moth caterpillar, and a Cormorant on the Dodder

Éanna Ní Lamhna on a dead 6ft leatherback turtle, a red garden spider, and the flowering lives of dandelions

Éanna Ní Lamhna on a garden thief, the darter dragonfly, and – cough, cough – rook pellets