I saw these insects on yellow flowers along with caterpillars with tiger stripes on Lisfannon Beach, Co. Donegal.
Philomena Grant, Derry
This picture is enough to fill a whole column. The flowers are common ragwort, dangerous for grazing cattle. The insect in the down colors is the daytime five-point moth with red hind wings. The Kilkenny-colored caterpillars are those of the vermilion moth, another red and black moth that will appear this month.
In our garden a blackbird is feeding two young thrushes. It goes on all day. The thrushes are now larger than the blackbird, which looks ragged and exhausted.
Justin Killullen
They are young blackbirds. They are not black like the adult male, but brown with spots on the underside. And yes, rearing young animals is exhausting, especially if they still demand food after leaving the nest.
This creature traveled home from the bog in a lot of turf. It had a red ring around the base of its head and two black dots in the red ring that looked like eyes.
Michael McArdle, Portlaoise
It is the cat moth’s caterpillar. Most of the illustrations show the caterpillar in full alert mode with whip-like threads protruding from its rear pair of horns. Together with the grotesque appearance of his red, face-like retracted head and his ability to expel an irritating liquid, he signals very clearly that he is not to be trifled with.
Is that an ordinary lizard? We found him on the wall of our house during the heat wave. We moved him gently to the hedge.
Callum Watt (10)
Yes, it is our only native lizard. They love basking on walls in the heat.
Stephen Delaney sent this picture of an imperial dragonfly, taken at Baylough in the Vee in Tipperary.
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