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.

If you have this ivy in Ireland, try planting a seed from the berry to see if it breeds true

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

What a beauty: rare moth sighted in Connemara

Éanna Ní Lamhna on winter gnats, a goldfinch-canary hybrid and insect biodiversity

If this lichen is growing in your area, it means the air you breathe is clean

Éanna Ní Lamhna on dead worms, an interesting beetle and a washed-up dolphin

Keep an eye out for the dastardly harlequin ladybird

Éanna Ní Lamhna on honeybee pub crawls, rare yellowhammers and pied wagtails

What is to blame for this gannet’s unusual stillness?

Éanna Ní Lamhna on blooming heather, an aggro blue tit and a stunning basking shark

What laid this cluster of jelly-like egg sacs?

Your notes and queries for Eanna Ní Lamhna

I found this spider walking around my desk at home... Is it dangerous?

Eanna Ní Lamhna on house spiders, chicken of the woods fungus, newts and more

What is this snake-like fish I found washed up on the beach?

Your notes and queries for Eanna Ní Lamhna

Eye on Nature: ‘The coal tit has two faint whiteish wing bars, whereas it is just one in the great tit’

Coal tits have a large white patch on the back of the head and the nape, which is entirely lacking in the great tit

Don’t feed the herring gulls, even if they are in decline

Éanna Ní Lamhna on the crossbill, a Japanese ladybird and an early-leafing horse chestnut

Yellowhammer birds have declined almost 60% in Ireland over the last 20 years

Éanna Ní Lamhna on insulated trees, a colourful fungus and a beach skeleton

Eye on Nature: ‘Is there a hierarchy of wildlife?’

Your notes and queries for Eanna Ní Lamhna

Eye on Nature: Have you heard a woodpecker in Bushy Park?

Éanna Ní Lamhna on a now-common sound in Ireland, a wormy correction and geese on tour

Why are hedgehogs on the move at all times of day and night?

Éanna Ní Lamhna on a blue-tit hotel, a disturbed bumblebee and a slimy fungus

Why are Irish robins so much tamer than Polish ones?

Éanna Ní Lamhna on a hitchhiking wasp, a three-cornered leek and a Curragh fungus