Éanna Ní Lamhna

Éanna Ní Lamhna

Contributor

Éanna Ní Lamhna, a biologist, environmentalist, broadcaster and and Irish Times contributor, answers readers' queries in Eye on Nature each week. She took the column over in 2021 from Ethna Viney, who had founded it 33 years earlier, in 1988.

This ghostly creature landed on my window earlier this month. What is it?

Your creepy crawlies, witchy woods and slithery creatures identified by Éanna Ní Lamhna

This guillemot might survive after a rest - unless it has bird flu

Éanna Ní Lamhna on dog vomit slime, the forest shield bug and birch sawfly larvae

Two dragonflies tied up in afternoon delight in Cork

Éanna Ní Lamhna on Grey Dagger moth, Puffball mushrooms and Redshanks

Phallus impudicus: the Latin name of the Stinkhorn fungus tells it like it is

Éanna Ní Lamhna on the harvestman, nest-box etiquette, and the flower crab spider

A reader’s most excellent photograph of the noble false widow spider

Éanna Ní Lamhna on the white saddle fungus, the curlew sandpiper influx and the rose chafer

Curlew in flight: Draining and cutting of bogs has destroyed their breeding habitat

Your notes and queries for Éanna Ní Lamhna

Keep an eye out for the garden spider this autumn

Éanna Ní Lamhna on the forest shield bug, the autumn hawker and robin not-yet-redbreast

This female only stick insect arrived in Ireland from New Zealand in the 1960s

Éanna Ní Lamhna on robin’s pincushion, an Irish mosquito, and a rare puffin snack

Is it a seed, a shell or a chocolate macaron?

Éanna Ní Lamhna on the sea-bean, the goat moth caterpillar and the large red damselfly

I was wrong when I said Asian hornets were not found in Ireland ...

Eanna Ní Lamhna answers readers’ question about curious wildlife spotted around the country

Eye on Nature: ‘We saw these translucent blobs on the beach in Rosslare. What are they?’

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

I say, these butterflies look rather busy

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

Red kites have thrived since reintroduction, but motorists remain a threat to their safety

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

The tiny ‘eggs’ in this field bird’s nest fungus are spore-bearing structures

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

‘This huge wasp landed on my son. What was it?’

Your notes and queries for Éanna Ní Lamhna

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