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Posted on March 23, 2019March 23, 2019

On seeing the first butterflies of Spring…

Perhaps it would be better to say that I saw the first butterflies I had noticed this Spring. The unassuming Small Tortoiseshell was the butterfly in question, and like the…

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Posted on January 11, 2019January 11, 2019

The man who rode zebras: Lionel Walter Rothschild

Here’s an extraordinary character, Lionel Walter Rothschildfrom the Nigeness blog a few years back: Lately I’ve been browsing in the biographies [of The Aurelian Legacy: British Butterflies and Their Collectors]…

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Posted on September 26, 2018September 15, 2018

Extinct in Ireland, September 27th – Small mountain ringlet (Erebia epiphron)

From the Straffan Butterfly Farm page: The small mountain ringlet: A famous butterfly collector called Mr Edwin Birchall claimed to have collected a series of these butterflies halfway up Croagh…

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Posted on April 29, 2018May 4, 2018

What Does it Take? – from “Dispatches from the Undergrowth” blog, on saving a species

Originally posted on dispatches from the undergrowth:
 Conservationists constantly worry about how to ‘keep things going’ – be it a bird, butterfly, or some other organism teetering on the brink.…

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Posted on October 22, 2015October 22, 2015

Nabokov’s Blues: The Scientific Odyssey of a Literary Genius. Kurt Johnson & Steve Coates. Lancet, 11th March 2000.

I only recently realised that my book review on wolves in Ireland isn’t actually my only “natural history” piece. This is in fact my first piece published in a proper, non-student publication.…

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