We had the best time in Kilmore Quay at the #2MinuteBeachClean Egg Case Hunt with Thérèse from @seashoreexplorer.bsky.social 🦈

🔎 👀Check out all the egg cases we found...And all the happy, smiley faces! Best Easter Hunt ever! 🐣

#BiodiversityIreland #marinedimensions
#SeashoreExplore #CleanCoasts

🚨 Biodiversity Recording 2025 🚨
Nature sightings are adding up fast! The most recorded species so far this year are the Red Fox (2,266), Red Admiral (1,794) and 7-Spot Ladybird (1,500). Every record counts for nature in Louth! 🌿🦊🦋 #BiodiversityIreland #NatureLouth

#12DaysWild #Day7

I've spent this year submitting what I've seen in nature to #BiodiversityIreland - over 600 records and roughly 140 species at the final count. I've had to learn what some things are, though I still struggle with the fungus world.

This pair of rooks were my last submission.

🌱 Our 'Hare’s Corner' Programme in Limerick 2025 🌱

Over 100 landowners and 21 community groups created 269 actions for nature, including ponds, mini-woodlands, orchards, and hedges. Over 350 new habitats now benefit wildlife across Limerick.

#BiodiversityIreland #TheHaresCorner #NatureInLimerick

🌱100 Burren Pine + 100 native companion species planted at Winterage! 🌱

Massive thanks to our volunteers and McCormack's farm for supporting biodiversity in this special landscape💚

#NativeTrees #BiodiversityIreland #ConservationInAction #CommunityPlanting #burrenpineproject

🌿 Help us to identify the needs and knowledge gaps of farmers, foresters, and advisors, relating to BFF practices in Ireland.

Fill out our questionnaire and make your voice count.

👉ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/runner/FarmBioN...

#HorizonEurope #BiodiversityIreland

A mainly dark brown butterfly with red bands on his wings sitting on a pink flower

Red Admiral #butterfly on #sedumspectabile at Kilmacurragh Botanic Garden @opwireland.bsky.social
#garden #flowers #gardening #gardeningbluesky
#gardenersworld #flower #bloomscrolling
#wicklow #wicklowoutdoors #nature
#photography
#wildlife #pollinators #biodiversityIreland #biodiversity

A Common Darter Dragonfly basks in the sun at rest on a festival urinal!

I suppose a perch is a perch when you're a invert 😅

Spotted at #Vantastival this morning.

#biodiversityireland
@nbntrust.bsky.social

Delicate spiders web with the sun behind highlighting a tiny white spider making her web

You can’t possibly believe in superiority of the human race when you come across this on your early morning walk. I stood and watched her working away for a few minutes. Incredible skill #wicklow #wicklowoutdoors #nature
#photography
#wildlife #biodiversityIreland #biodiversity #spider #spidersweb

Heather, honeysuckle, blackberries and bracken. Natures compositions are the best #biodiversityIreland #biodiversity #pollinators #nature

Small red and black insect with six black spots climbing up a flower stem

Six spot #ladybird clinging to Common Yarrow #biodiversityIreland #biodiversity #nature #buglife #photography #wildlife #pollinators #yarrow

A handsome mid height plant with spiky leaves and pinky-purple flowers

Another handsome addition to the wild flower garden, beloved by bees wasps and other insects #spearthistle #biodiversityIreland #biodiversity #wildlife #pollinators #photography #nature

Tall plant with pink flowers rising up a flower spike

Rosebay willowherb (fireweed in US) considered a weed but a welcome addition to the wildflower garden. The nectar rich flowers are great for pollinators & the leaves feed invertebrates #wildlife #pollinators #biodiversityIreland #biodiversity #photography #nature #wicklowoutdoors

Have you heard...? In addition to producing our food, farmers in Ireland are helping to restore the natural environment through a range of EU Common Agricultural Policy schemes. Find out more at:
capnetworkireland.eu/campaigns

#commonagriculturalpolicy #biodiversityireland #farmingireland

Orange butterfly with black frilly edges and marks that look like eyes in each corner sitting on a yellow flower

Peacock #butterfly on #ragwort #wildlife #pollinators #biodiversityIreland #biodiversity

Butterfly with a soft brown body and orange wings with black stripes and a frilled edge with blue markings

Small tortoiseshell #butterfly #wildlife #pollinators #biodiversityIreland #biodiversity #butterflies #photography

Sitting outside on a balmy night by the lakes in Co Cavan listening to a Tawny Owl calling in the distance. Feels kinda special never heard one before #biodiversityireland #owls #ireland

A tiny pink flower with 5 petals and a yellow centre set against a background of green bracken

The forest trails are full of tiny wild flowers scattered about like gems. This is Common Centaury whose flowers only open in full sun. #wildflowers #flower #bloomscrolling
#wicklow #wicklowoutdoors #nature
#photography
#wildlife #pollinators #biodiversityIreland #biodiversity

Plant with green hairy stem and white flowers with a red and black ladybird

Ladybird on Wild Carrot. Hopefully the first of many #garden #flowers #gardening #buglife #gardeningbluesky #gardenersworld #flower #whatsinmyvase #gardeningfeed #bloomscrolling
#wicklow #wicklowoutdoors #nature
#photography
#wildlife #pollinators #biodiversityIreland #biodiversity

Large white flower in hedgerow

The pretty white flowers of Hedge Bindweed. Admittedly not a welcome garden visitor but an important food plant on bright moonlit nights when it provides nectar for hawkmoths #flowers #gardeningbluesky
#wicklow #wicklowoutdoors #nature
#wildlife #pollinators #biodiversityIreland #biodiversity

A yellow flowered plant with a red beetle and small yellow and black stripy caterpillars

Red Soldier Beetle and young Cinnabar Moth caterpillars feasting on #ragwort. Such a valuable and misunderstood food plant #wicklow #wicklowoutdoors #nature #photography
#wildlife #pollinators #biodiversityIreland #biodiversity #buglife

Black and yellow bee climbing on a Bluey-purple spiky plant with big flower heads

#bee on #seaholly collecting nectar. How do they not get prickled?

#garden #flowers #gardening #photography #mygarden #gardeningbluesky #gardenersworld #flower #gardeningfeed #bloomscrolling #nature
#wildlife #pollinators #biodiversityIreland #biodiversity #

Small butterfly with orange wings with black, yellow and blue edging sitting in a bed of flowers

Small tortoiseshell #butterfly on #scabious #lavender and #oregano

#garden #flowers #gardening #photography #mygarden #gardeningbluesky #gardenersworld #flower #bloomscrolling #nature
#photography
#wildlife #pollinators #biodiversityIreland #biodiversity

🌸 Create a sensory garden for pollinators! 🐝
Plant lavender, thyme, crocus & native shrubs 🌿
Let clover bloom, skip the pesticides & add bee hotels! 🦋
Make it beautiful. Make it buzz.
📍 Get free guides: ow.ly/q2Ka50W8ci5
#PollinatorGarden #BiodiversityIreland

A misty view of the hills and green bracken and foliage with 3 tall spikes of purple flowered foxgloves

Foxgloves on the trail #flowers #photography #flower #bloomscrolling
#wicklow #wicklowoutdoors #nature
#landscape
#pollinators #biodiversityIreland #biodiversity
#foxgloves

Table with compartments planted with different types of the herb thyme

My Thymes Table. Creeping Red, Caborn Wine & Roses, Snowdrift, Lemon Variegated, Goldstream and Common #thymus #garden #flowers #gardening #photography #mygarden #gardeningbluesky #gardenersworld #flower #pollinators #gardeningfeed #bloomscrolling
#biodiversityIreland #biodiversity

Not in my lawn but a relatives. He was thrilled to discover that his efforts in no mow May have paid off. #beeorchid #biodiversityireland #nomowmay

Birds nest constructed of moss/twigs and what looks like sheep’s wool

Bird’s nest (possibly wren) discovered on the ground while #gardening Intricately woven & so warm/cosy inside. Hope all the birds hatched and flew safely. So nice to have this indication that #songbirds are nesting here again after construction work #wildlife #biodiversityIreland #biodiversity

Must be a May record for our #BumbleeMonitoring for #biodiversityIreland. 150 bumblebees! Normally far less here in May + mostly honeybees. The #NoMow and #wild areas mean blankets of #vetch , #clover and #birdsfoottrefoil for all to enjoy! #pollinators #bumbógs #spéirgorm #knocklyon #PollinatorPlan

Small brown butterfly with cream spots on each wing resting on bracken foliage

Speckled wood butterfly on bracken in #wicklow #wicklowoutdoors #nature
#photography
#wildlife #biodiversityIreland #biodiversity