What is this strange growth outside Cork University Hospital?
Éanna Ní Lamhna on fungi, a marine worm and whooper swans
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 drake
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 insects
Eel or rare river lamprey? Something comes a-slithering from the stream
Éanna Ní Lamhna on a German wasp, a ruby tiger moth caterpillar, and a Cormorant on the Dodder
These might look like storybook mushrooms. But there’ll be no happily-ever-after if you eat them
Éanna Ní Lamhna on a dead 6ft leatherback turtle, a red garden spider, and the flowering lives of dandelions
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 pellets
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 potatoes
An otter spotter’s paradise in Co Donegal
Éanna Ní Lamhna on the limitations of Google, the kestrel’s talent for spotting mouse pee, and a very large caterpillar
Grey squirrels don’t hibernate and they’d be nuts to eat conkers
Eanna Ní Lamhna debunks a squirrel myth, confirms there are no toads in Malahide and identifies an old Donegal coral
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 regimen
What are these these pretty seeds I recently came across
Éanna Ní Lamhna on white-tailed bumblebees, red latticed stinkhorns and – more stink – green shield bugs
What is this paint-splashed butterfly?
Éanna Ní Lamhna on mating white-tailed bumblebees, going bananas, and an unusually beautiful insect
Why this crab must be a mating super stud
Éanna Ní Lamhna on a rare glossy long-legged spider, the declining yellowhammer and the common earwig
There have only been seven Irish records of this huge moth, the last in 1997
Éanna Ní Lamhna on the oleander moth, a fine feather and a fish that could bite a finger off
Can you identify this little creature?
Eanna Ní Lamhna on field mice, voles, caterpillars, sparrowhawks and more