eat more venison 🦌

Our #ReptileRamble event with Fingal County Council on Sunday 18th Aug for #HeritageWeek24 is fully booked out! 🦎🦎🦎 Please keep an eye out as last minute cancellations will be advertised here eventbrite.ie/e/reptile-ramb…

** 4 Tickets have become available for tomorrow's reptile ramble event** 1 ticket for 10:00 - 11:00 3 tickets for 11:30 - 12:30 Book here eventbrite.ie/e/957533748217…

Enjoyed the first half/3 acts of #AlienRomulus    then it descended into a bit of a call back/fan flick fest, which I found disappointing. Not the worst of the series but could have been so much better if kept simple imo. Fantastic performances by the 2 lead actors.

Although they look like spiders, harvestmen are more closely related to scorpions says Richard Jones discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts/i…

Baby Giant African land snails growing well. ♥️🐌

Wildflowers of Turloughs New episode of the Video Flora of Ireland with Dr Micheline Sheehy Skeffington, President of BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland m.youtube.com/watch?v=OiYA4u… Thanks to Coole Park NPWS Nature Conservation Burren National Park School of Natural Sciences, Trinity College Dublin Trinity College Botanic Garden

Couple of kilos of berries collected today. The jam don of Wicklow is back in action.

Why is it so important that the National Museum of Ireland- Natural History closes for refurbishment on the 1st of September?- Aoife Hurley the Head of Operations at the National Museum of Ireland explains the next steps in the process. museum.ie/en-IE/News/Nat…

About 11, 500 different insect species have been discovered in Ireland. What six-legged insects live in our cities? Join Entomology Curator, Aidan O’Hanlon National Museum of Ireland, for a short online talk on the six-legged neighbours living in our cities ⬇️ youtube.com/live/PotWMomis…

This year's low wasp count might be a normal fluctuation, but it's against the backdrop of a global decline in insects. In The Conversation, Prof Seirian Sumner Prof Seirian Sumner UCL Centre for Biodiversity & Environment Research encourages #citizenscientists to take part in this year's Big Wasp Survey. theconversation.com/where-the-uks-…

Here's my sneaky way of luring spiders out of their webs for collection.... 🕷🍆💦😅

I'll be on Ireland AM in a bit talking house spiders 🕷

Inside a wasps nest that was built in one of my bird boxes. 🐝

I would love to give a HUGE thank you to our guides and guests who have presented talks in the Auk room of the Zoological museum! And of course, to all those who have attended our talks. Here are some memories 🦈

Very proud of my wifes Ruth Ennis work on this paper.

We also featured guests such as Martyn Linnie as the curator, Pepijn Luijckx talking about parasites and Collie Ennis who brought live animals (Butter being our favourite of course). We hope you had a fabulous night 🫶

We also featured guests such as Martyn Linnie as the curator, Pepijn Luijckx talking about parasites and Collie Ennis who brought live animals (Butter being our favourite of course). We hope you had a fabulous night 🫶

This will be great craic. Last chance to have a look at the summers pond life!