Eye on Nature

Eye on Nature: A hoverfly on Pallenis maritima, tracking of foxes with GPS radio collars, a successful takeover by wasps and a Common pipistrele bat

Éanna Ní Lamhna on a clean bill of health for a fulmar, a spider close up, and a troubling abundance of jellyfish at Kilkeel

Éanna Ní Lamhna on the native Irish honeybee, oozing slime and a frog’s life

Eanna Ní Lamhna on hoverflies, northern bobwhites and green shield bugs

Éanna Ní Lamhna on an irritating native moth, the click beetle and the thunderworm

Éanna Ní Lamhna on a frightening moth, baby spiders and fairweather mates

Éanna Ní Lamhna on song thrushes, a masked crab, and a German tourist that never went home

Eanna Ní Lamhna on woodlouse, hoopoe, mallards, spider crabs and the female crab spider

Éanna Ní Lamhna on crow pellets, a chimney mystery and the true nature of cuckoo spit

Éanna Ní Lamhna on a dulled female bullfinch, Ireland’s only red damselfly and an eternally basking shark

Eye on Nature: Éanna Ní Lamhna on ermine moths, rove beetles, pignuts and weevils

Eye on Nature: Éanna Ní Lamhna on emperor moths, great tits and white-toothed shrews

Éanna Ní Lamhna on a foul-smelling insect, a camouflaging caterpillar and the Irish spread of the buzzard

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

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

When Michael Viney’s second column An Eye on Nature answering readers queries began, Ethna ran it for years under his name until she was finally acknowledged as the author

Author was a feminist, economist and environmentalist who wrote the weekly Eye on Nature column for 33 years

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

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

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