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
Eanna Ní Lamhna on hoverflies, northern bobwhites and green shield bugs
Éanna Ní Lamhna on an irritating native moth, the click beetle and the thunderworm
Éanna Ní Lamhna on a frightening moth, baby spiders and fairweather mates
Éanna Ní Lamhna on song thrushes, a masked crab, and a German tourist that never went home
Eanna Ní Lamhna on woodlouse, hoopoe, mallards, spider crabs and the female crab spider
Éanna Ní Lamhna on crow pellets, a chimney mystery and the true nature of cuckoo spit
Éanna Ní Lamhna on a dulled female bullfinch, Ireland’s only red damselfly and an eternally basking shark
Eye on Nature: Éanna Ní Lamhna on ermine moths, rove beetles, pignuts and weevils
Eye on Nature: Éanna Ní Lamhna on emperor moths, great tits and white-toothed shrews
Éanna Ní Lamhna on a foul-smelling insect, a camouflaging caterpillar and the Irish spread of the buzzard
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
Éanna Ní Lamhna on winter gnats, a goldfinch-canary hybrid and insect biodiversity
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
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Éanna Ní Lamhna on dead worms, an interesting beetle and a washed-up dolphin
Éanna Ní Lamhna on honeybee pub crawls, rare yellowhammers and pied wagtails
Éanna Ní Lamhna on blooming heather, an aggro blue tit and a stunning basking shark
Eanna Ní Lamhna on house spiders, chicken of the woods fungus, newts and more
Your notes and queries for Eanna Ní Lamhna
Coal tits have a large white patch on the back of the head and the nape, which is entirely lacking in the great tit
Éanna Ní Lamhna on the crossbill, a Japanese ladybird and an early-leafing horse chestnut
Éanna Ní Lamhna on insulated trees, a colourful fungus and a beach skeleton
Éanna Ní Lamhna on a now-common sound in Ireland, a wormy correction and geese on tour
Éanna Ní Lamhna on a blue-tit hotel, a disturbed bumblebee and a slimy fungus
Éanna Ní Lamhna on a hitchhiking wasp, a three-cornered leek and a Curragh fungus
Éanna Ní Lamhna on a singular mushroom, beach craters and an ‘ugly’ spider
Éanna Ní Lamhna on an invasive flatworn, the ocean’s bounty and an early leafing hawthorn tree
Éanna Ní Lamhna on a black-headed gull, a nursery web spider and a lichen-sporting car
Eanna Ní Lamhna on ladybugs, spiders, mushrooms and more
Your notes and queries for Éanna Ní Lamhna
Eye on Nature: Eanna Ní Lamhna on fly agaric mushrooms, hedgehogs, mandarin ducks, robins and holly berries
Éanna Ní Lamhna on a strange fungus, a brave red squirrel and an energetic butterfly
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