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.

Is this swan’s discolouration a Suir thing?

Éanna Ní Lamhna replies to readers’ questions and observations

Is climate change responsible for this sighting of a butterfly in winter?

Eye on Nature: Éanna Ní Lamhna on a migrant insect, a native dipper, and a toothy-looking animal horn

A supermodel sandpiper popped up on the Clare shore in December

Eye on Nature: Éanna Ní Lamhna on kelp, Bootlace Fungus and Pelican’s Foot Shells

Where did this duck come from and why is it in Ireland?

Readers’ notes and queries for Éanna Ní Lamhna

Is this big fella a common raven? He was very light on his feet

Eye on Nature: Eanna Ní Lamhna on roving ravens, sunbathing butterflies and spotted dogfish

Have you any idea what this colourful fly is?

Eye on Nature: Eanna Ní Lamhna responds to your wildlife queries

‘I spotted this owl near my home in Co Kilkenny. What type of owl is it?’

Readers’ notes and queries for Éanna Ní Lamhna

This is a most excellent picture of a male jumping spider

Eye on Nature: Éanna Ní Lamhna on hot-house arachnids, blue mushrooms and boring beetles

Mild weather is delaying hibernation in hedgehogs

Readers’ notes and queries for Éanna Ní Lamhna

If you drink reindeer urine after they have eaten these red mushrooms, you’ll get high apparently

Eye on Nature: Eanna Ní Lamhna on flying reindeer, avian winter visitors and fossilised limestone

This Donegal toad is not welcome in Dún Laoghaire

Readers’ notes and queries for Éanna Ní Lamhna

Next spring these swans will be driven away by their formerly loving parents        

Eanna Ní Lamhna on an extremely tiny plant feeder, a heated standoff on the Dodder and a rare presence in Wicklow

The stain on your fingers from the bleeding aphids will go after a few days

Éanna Ní Lamhna on the rarely seen great bittern, a very irritating caterpillar, and the beautiful green lacewing

This red fungus has been rarely recorded in Ireland

Éanna Ní Lamhna on the red latticed stinkhorn, spotted snake millipedes and a possible rare Irish sighting of a funnelweb spider web

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

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