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Éanna Ní Lamhna on slugs versus humans, a native Irish fern and red-listed puffins

Éanna Ní Lamhna on the not-so-common common seal, invasive flowers and snail eggs

Éanna Ní Lamhna on cellar dwellers, irritating caterpillars and snail clusters

  Could you please identify what’s growing extensively in my grass? They are about 5cm tall, appeared about a month ago and show no sign or dying off. I never saw anything like them before. – John Stringer, Douglas Road, Cork It’s a fungus called earth tongue. It grows in mossy lawns, particularly near the coast from September to December. Garden spider cobweb We found these cobwebs outside on our patio table. At 10 inches in diameter, they seem unusually large. – Te...