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Paper nautilus: a glossy white fan of a shell, so fragile that the sun infused it, gleaming through every tight fold. Illustration: Michael Viney

On the equiangular spiral and how the narwhal got its horn

Michael Viney: D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson belongs on the same shelf as Charles Darwin

Eyes on nature: the hairless bumblebee that Tony Mcgaley photographed

Why bumblebees can lose all their hair: Readers’ nature queries

Eye on Nature: Ethna Viney replies to your queries and observations

Bracken: a single plant can eventually spread to fill a whole field. Illustration: Michael Viney Bracken: a single plant can eventually spread to fill a whole field – and it is very hard to get rid of. Illustration: Michael Viney

Farmers’ weapons of mass destruction carry cancer fears

Michael Viney: Is Roundup safe or carcinogenic? What about other herbicides?

Eyes on nature: Ulli Peiler found that the regurgitated stuff mentioned in Eye on Nature on July 1st (above; photograph: Vincent Devlin) contained ivy seeds

The regurgitated pink stuff: what was in it? Readers’ nature queries

Ethna Viney on ivy seeds, buzzards, navelwort, beetles and whelk shells

Eyes on nature: the tick that landed on the wild garlic Emer O’Shea was photographing on Lough Erne

Is this a tick, and could it be carrying Lyme disease? Readers’ nature queries

Ethna Viney on ticks, foxes, long-eared owls, mason wasps and silver Y moths

How many must die?: a flight of young sparrows. Illustration: Michael Viney

How many birds can the natural world support?

The brilliant CB Moffat anticipated 21st-century avian population dynamics theory

Burnet rose: the low, densely prickled cushions of Rosa pimpinellifolia are easy to name. Illustration: Michael Viney

A bunch of 10 wild roses by any other names

Michael Viney: Hybridising habits and costume changes boost Ireland’s ‘Rosa’ roster

Eyes on nature: the pink stuff, presumably regurgitated by a bird, that dropped from Vincent Devlin’s window

What’s this pink stuff that fell from my window? Readers’ nature queries

Ethna Viney on moths, caterpillars, flycatchers and bracket fungus

Sedge warbler

What is this bird I saw in the reeds beside the river Suir?

Eye on nature: Ethna Viney replies to your queries and observations

Seakale is reduced to ‘probably no more than 20 wild plants’ that ought to be left alone. Illustration: Michael Viney

Pioneering plants in peril on shingle banks

Another Life: New survey finds just 27 sites that fit the EU prescription for perennially vegetated shingle, almost all within special areas of conservation

Lambs got sarcocystosis from dogs which ate raw offal containing the parasite and passed it on to the land where the lambs grazed. Photograph: Steve Parsons/PA Wire

Lamb disease: Q&A

The facts on sarcocystosis as 400 lamb carcasses are removed from food chain

Variable damselfly, sent in by Emer O’Shea, Ballyshannon

Eye on Nature: From funny feathered feet to a rare caterpillar

Ethna Viney responds to your queries, observations and photographs

Doo Lough Pass. Illustration: Michael Viney

We’re all lost without a national landscape map of Ireland

The lack of such a map is to the detriment of good planning and landscape policy

Eyes on nature: a hummingbird hawkmoth photographed by Paul Murphy in Limerick

Is that a wasps’ nest in my bird house? Readers’ nature queries

Ethna Viney on blue tits, crab spiders, angle shades moths and hummingbird hawkmoths

Yellow irises. Illustration: Michael Viney

The beautiful early bloom has taken on a troubling edge

There was an innocent time when one could just have thanked the sun, but that’s gone

Cinnabar moth

What is this unusual butterfly from the Burren?

Eye on nature: Ethna Viney replies to your queries and observations

Illustration: Michael Viney

Crude overfishing means the world is no longer oysters’

The native oyster’s history tells both of a great loss from the coast’s ecosystem

Horsetail

What is this unusual insect? Readers' nature queries

Your questions and observations answered by Ethna Viney

Illustration: Michael Viney

Michael Viney: Animals were put on Earth to fart around

The sight of sheep at a hedge got me thinking about animal curiosity

Dogs miss much of the colour we can see. Photograph: Niall Carson/PA

Why is the sea blue, and why can’t dogs see all the colours that we can?

Michael Viney: You might wonder if any living thing sees Earth’s ‘true’ colours at all

A seasonal cockchafer beetle. Photograph: Caitríona Shaffrey

An abundance of cockchafer beetles and other nature queries

Eye on Nature: Ethna Viney on lawyer’s wigs, two-banded longhorn beetles and butterflies

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