Red Admiral's, crazy Irish weather and chatting over a pint at the Spancil Hill horse fair near Ennis. The old Man in the Moon has the broadest of smiles on his ruddy face over Lough Derg tonight as I ...

April is when spring wildflowers begin to blossom in quantity, in tune with butterflies and bees emerging for the summer season ahead. The offering up of sweet nectar and protein-rich pollen, just ...

Invasive plant species such as montbretia and fuchsia crowd out all native herbs that butterflies need for their life cycles A small pearl-bordered fritillary butterfly. Britain's National Trust is ...

A student who was at a Dublin discussion with Evans told me her essential concept, and I thought it sounded promising: at Pinkerton’s funeral many years later than Puccini’s ending, his wife Kate ...

A package recently arrived in the post for Jesmond Harding, a teacher from Meath who has been captivated by butterflies since the age of five. It was from the family of his late friend Michael Preston ...