Volume 42: Winkler et al. highlight the value and potential of land-based whale watching: the example of the Iveragh peninsula. Subscribe at irishnaturalistsjournal.org #IrishNaturalistsJournal #Zoology #Marine
Volume 42: Minchin et al. investigate fouling on small North Atlantic drift seeds on a Kerry Beach. Subscribe at irishnaturalistsjournal.org #IrishNaturalistsJournal #Zoology #Botany #Marine
Volume 42: Kane and Sweeney examine Water boatmen (Corixidae) in County Cork: species, habitats and use in biological water quality assessment. Subscribe at irishnaturalistsjournal.org #IrishNaturalistsJournal #Zoology #Entomology
Volume 41 – Markey et al. investigate Alpine Newts (Ichthyosaura alpestris) using farmland
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Volume 41 – Levesque et al. share strandings records from the Irish Whale and Dolphin Group for 2023. For subscription details visit: irishnaturalistsjournal.org
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🎄 Volume 41 ⛄ – Ryan and Foote solve a decades old mystery: Matched images of a lone Killer Whale in the Foyle Estuary in 1977 gives clues to its origins and fate. Subscription details visit: irishnaturalistsjournal.org 🎁
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Volume 41 – Adriano Pittini reveals a specimen of Merocanites subapplanatus, an extinct ammonoid cephalopod from the Carboniferous of Co. Dublin. For subscription details visit: irishnaturalistsjournal.org
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Volume 41 – Eamonn O’Donnell reports Chrysocharis purpurea, a sawfly parasitoid new to Ireland. For subscription details visit: irishnaturalistsjournal.org
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Volume 41 – Aidan O’Hanlon explores Irish exotic ants: a checklist, and a historical first interception of the New York Carpenter Ant (Camponotus novaeboracensis) in Dublin . For subscription details visit: irishnaturalistsjournal.org
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Volume 41 – Power and Hamilton report the discovery of Notoxus monoceros an ant-like flower beetle new to Ireland, from Co. Kerry. For subscription details visit: irishnaturalistsjournal.org
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Volume 41 – Gammell and O’Brien report the First record of the Thrift Clearwing moth (Pyropteron muscaeformis) from Co. Galway. For subscription details visit: irishnaturalistsjournal.org
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Volume 41 – Ciarán Byrne reports on Microterys seyon, a parasitoid wasp new to Ireland from Co. Carlow, and comments on the genus . For subscription details visit: irishnaturalistsjournal.org
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Volume 41 – Byrne and Clarke report on Tropidosteptes pacificus, a mirid bug new to Ireland from counties Carlow and Antrim. For subscription details visit: irishnaturalistsjournal.org
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Volume 41 – Power et al. report on Nephus quadrimaculatus a ladybird new to Ireland from Counties Carlow, Kilkenny and Wexford. For subscription details visit: irishnaturalistsjournal.org
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Volume 41 – Spaans et al. report on the Bark Beetles Pityogenes trepanatus new to Ireland and records of Polygraphus poligraphus. For subscription details visit: irishnaturalistsjournal.org
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Volume 41 – Joshua Clarke shares notes on two recently-established non-native harvestmen in Ireland: Platybunus pinetorum and Opilio canestrinii. For subscription details visit: irishnaturalistsjournal.org
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Volume 41 – Rosell et al. report an observation of predation of the invasive New Zealand Flatworm (Arthurdendyus triangulatus) by a larva of the Black Snail Beetle (Phosphuga atrata). For subscription details visit: irishnaturalistsjournal.org
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Volume 41 – Power and Doherty report on Bilobella braunerae, a springtail new to Ireland from Counties Wicklow and Tipperary. For subscription details visit: irishnaturalistsjournal.org
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Volume 41 – Ciarán Flynn reports Sphagnum platyphyllum and Sarmentypnum sarmentosum in a flush on the Cooley Mountains, Co. Louth. For subscription details visit: irishnaturalistsjournal.org
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Volume 41 – Daunt et al. examine a Historic algal herbarium at University College Cork, part of the of the original Queen’s College Cork (QCC)/University College Cork (UCC) herbarium. For subscription details visit: irishnaturalistsjournal.org
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Volume 41 – Patrick Smiddy looks at the Thorn-apple (Datura stramonium) in the East Cork flora. For subscription details visit: irishnaturalistsjournal.org
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Volume 41 – Thomas Ennis reports the presence of A bee orchid Ophrys apifera forma chlorantha at a site in Co. Down. For subscription details visit: irishnaturalistsjournal.org
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Volume 41 – James Fox investigates the presence of Cornflower (Centaurea cyanus) in newly sown commercial grass crops. For subscription details visit: irishnaturalistsjournal.org
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Volume 41 – Eoin Mc Greal reports on Large-flowered Butterwort (Pinguicula grandiflora) and Green-flowered Helleborine (Epipactis phyllanthes) in Co. Mayo . For subscription details visit: irishnaturalistsjournal.org
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Volume 41 – Aidan O Hanlon reviews Historical records of ant species from the Killarney Region, and additional Irish ant records from the entomological collections of Edwin F. Bullock (1879 – 1965). For subscription details visit: irishnaturalistsjournal.org
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Volume 41 – Devery and Lucey look at Lanceolate Pondweed (Potamogeton × lanceolatus Sm.) in Offaly and Tipperary. For subscription details and access to Volume 41, visit: irishnaturalistsjournal.org
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Volume 41 – Nelson et al. provide a critical update to the checklist of Irish bees, with the corrected checklist containing 103 species. For subscription details and access to Volume 41, visit: irishnaturalistsjournal.org
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Volume 41 – Patrick Smiddy examines the distribution of the invasive seaweed Agarophyton vermiculophyllum (Gracilaria vermiculophylla) in Cork and Waterford. For subscription details and access to Volume 41, visit: irishnaturalistsjournal.org
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Volume 41 – Darren Ellis looks at Vegetation community classification to infer protected habitat extent in a turlough Special Area of Conservation in the West of Ireland. For subscription details and access to Volume 41, visit: irishnaturalistsjournal.org
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Volume 41 – Richard Nairn explores the life and many achievements Richard John Ussher (1841-1913): ornithologist and speleologist. For subscription details and access to Volume 41, visit: irishnaturalistsjournal.org
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