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Continuing my September postings on species extinct in Ireland since human habitation, consider the beetle. Many insects often have wonderfully evocative names – both formal and common – that deserve…
Included in Red List No. 2, Non Marine Molluscs as extinct, albeit perhaps in this case its presence in Ireland in the first is debated: Known in Ireland only from limestone…
Moving from yesterday’s flower, the meadow saxifrage, to a moss species no longer found in Ireland. The demise of “mud capped stone walls”, as outlined below, is another example of…
I began this exploration of species extinct in Ireland with a fish, the sturgeon., have moved through mammals and insects, but only now am moving to plants. And predictably enough…
From Whittled Away: Bred at Lough Funshinagh, County Roscommon, until 1957. This 2015 Irish Examiner piece gives more of the story: The species once had a special relationship with Ireland; a County…
The Triple-Spotted Clay moth is unknown in Ireland since 1956. From Red List 9 Macro-moths: There is a single generation of adults in late June to early August with larvae from August…
My September blog series Extinct in Ireland continues dolefully on. And here is a bird extinct as a breeding species in Ireland very much within recent memory: the Corn Bunting.…
In recent years declines in bee populations have set alarm bells ringing, and this seems to have penetrated quite widely. I would urge all readers in Ireland to familiarise themselves with All-Ireland Pollinator…
Séamus Sweeney 