Eanna Ní Lamhna

Eanna Ní Lamhna

Contributor

Eanna 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.

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

What makes this washed-up octopus lesser?

Éanna Ní Lamhna on a singular mushroom, beach craters and an ‘ugly’ spider

Hang in there, squirrel: reader catches a thief in the act

Éanna Ní Lamhna on an invasive flatworn, the ocean’s bounty and an early leafing hawthorn tree

The red kite is a rare nature success story of recent times

Éanna Ní Lamhna on a black-headed gull, a nursery web spider and a lichen-sporting car