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Paid up INJ subscribers already have their copy of Volume 41. If you want to see what you are missing for as little as £25/€29 a year, there's a full contents listing of the 167 page issue here: irishnaturalistsjournal.org/back-issues/vo… #wildlife #nature

Paddy Sleeman one of the editors of the volume and behind the Mind the Gap series of conferences and three INJ special publications arising from them

Aileen Tennant, Director of Fota Wildlife Park, sponsors of the conference from which the papers in Origins of Ireland’s Biodiversity originated and funders of the publication. fotawildlife.ie/pages/educatio…

INJ has been publishing a journal for 100 years now, quietly posting it out to our subscribers. Our special publication Origins of Ireland’s Biodiversity got a formal launch by Minister Christopher O’Sullivan at Fota Wildlife Park. Full details here irishnaturalistsjournal.org/back-issues/in…

Volume 40 - Ryan Mitchell reports on a species of flat-footed fly, Agathomyia cinerea, new to Ireland. For subscription details: irishnaturalistsjournal.org

Ultan (left) was presented his award by Dr. Darren Reidy (right) of the INJ Board of Directors.

Congratulations to Ultan Ò'Donnell of @ucddublin on winning the INJ prize for best natural history student presentation at @ESAI_Environ 2025. His talk was entitled ‘Firmly Rooted: Using host trees to predict new pest invasions’. irishnaturalistsjournal.org

Volume 40 - Byrne and Power report on the Wheat Bug (Nysius huttoni), a lygaeid bug new to Ireland from Co. Carlow. For subscription details: irishnaturalistsjournal.org

Volume 40 - Byrne & O'Sullivan report on records of the Ligurian Leafhopper (Eupteryx decemnotata) new to Ireland from Counties Galway, Cork, Carlow and Laois. For subscription details: irishnaturalistsjournal.org

Volume 40 - Owen Beckett reports on The first records of the Adonis Ladybird (Hippodamia variegata) in Ireland. For subscription details: irishnaturalistsjournal.org

Volume 40 - Brian Murray reports the results of a 2023 survey of the bees and aculeate wasps from Glending Wood, Co. Wicklow. For subscription details: irishnaturalistsjournal.org

Volume 40 - Rachel Mc Kenna reports on Pristiphora conjugata, a sawfly new to Ireland. For subscription details: irishnaturalistsjournal.org

Volume 40 - Aidan O’Hanlon reports the first female specimen of the rare wasp Barylypa propugnator taken from a new locality in Ireland. For subscription details: irishnaturalistsjournal.org

Volume 40 - Clarke and Beckett report on new records of the Endangered Blunt-jawed Nomad Bee (Nomada striata) in Northern Ireland. For subscription details: irishnaturalistsjournal.org

Volume 40 - Joshua Clarke highlights some behavioural observation of male Sabre Wasps (Rhyssa persuasoria) aggregating at a tree in Belvoir Park Forest, Co. Down. For subscription details: irishnaturalistsjournal.org

Congratulations to our three 2024 INJ Grant recipients: Jake Dalzell - Recording the plant-pathogenic fungi and oomycetes of Ireland; Ciarán Flynn - Bryophytes of Slieve Gullion, Co. Armagh; and Brian Murray - Moth Recording in West Wicklow. irishnaturalistsjournal.org/inj-grant/

Volume 40 - Owen Beckett reports the first record of the non-native ladybird species Rhyzobius lophanthae (Blaisdell) in Ireland. For subscription details: irishnaturalistsjournal.org

Volume 40 - Rachel Mc Kenna reports on Pristiphora leucopus (Hellén), a sawfly new to Ireland. For subscription details: irishnaturalistsjournal.org

Volume 40 - Hubert and van Achterberg share findings of a survey of aphid parasitoid wasps (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Aphidiinae), with a first record of Aphidius urticae in Ireland. For subscription details: irishnaturalistsjournal.org