INJ Volume 35 Part 2

The Irish Naturalists’ Journal Volume 35, Part 2 (published 9 July 2017, print circulation September 2017)

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  • Google Earth and Google Street View reveal differences in Pipistrellus pipstrellus and Pipistrellus pygmaeus roadside habitat use in Ireland.
  • Expansion of the White-clawed Crayfish (Austropotamobius pallipes (Lereboullet)) population in the Munster Blackwater.
  • The Asian Clam (Corbicula fluminea (O.F. Müller)) (Cyrenidae) arrives in the Erne River.
  • The first record of Nitellopsis obtusa (N. A. Desvaux) J. Groves (Charophyceae, Characeae) in Ireland (H9, H10) .
  • Men, microscopes and meetings – the nineteenth century Dublin microscopists and their work.
  • A new record for the introduced plant Persicaria capitata (Pink-headed Persicaria), from Newport, Co. Mayo (H27).
  • The Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland New Year Plant Hunt 2015.
  • A cream yellow form of the Heath Fragrant Orchid (Gymnadenia conopsea ssp. borealis (Druce) F. Rose) in Co. Donegal.
  • Sphagnum beothuk R.E. Andrus new to Ireland.
  • Agrocybe rivulosa and Leratiomyces ceres – alien woodchip fungi in County Cork (H4).
  • Whale lice (Cyamus boopis) present on a Humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae).
  • Recent records of the European Cave Spider from man-made and natural habitats in Ireland.
  • A first record of the Swan Mussel (Anodonta cygnea (L.)) (Mollusca: Bivalvia), from Lough Coy Turlough, Co. Galway.
  • A first record of Dorylomorpha anderssoni Albrecht, a species of big-headed fly (Diptera: Pipunculidae) new to Ireland.
  • A first inland and ground-nesting occurrence of Osmia aurulenta (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae) from Co. Tipperary.
  • First Irish record of the cecidomyid gall midge Dasineura harrisoni (Bagnall) (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae).
  • Forest Cockchafer (Melolontha hippocastani Fabricius) (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) coming to light in north Antrim.
  • The status of Trechus subnotatus (Dejean) (Coleoptera: Carabidae) in Ireland, with a new site in the Dublin area.
  • Deraeocoris ruber (L.) and Closterotomus trivialis (Costa) two plant bugs (Hemiptera, Miridae) new to Ireland from Co. Cork.
  • First observation of Tomostethus nigritus (Fabricius) (Hymenoptera: Tenthredinidae) on urban ash trees in Ireland.
  • Stonefly nymphs in turloughs.
  • First record of xanthochromism in Black Sole (Solea solea (L.)).
  • Pseudo-albino Black Sole (Solea solea (L.)) from the Irish Sea.
  • Differing response of breeding Stonechats (Saxicola rubicola) to presence of Woodchat Shrike (Lanius senator).
  • Records from the Irish Whale and Dolphin Group for 2014.
  • New record of a group of Beluga (Delphinapterus leucas (Pallas)) in Irish waters.
  • A rare stranding of a female Killer Whale (Orcinus orca) on the south coast of Ireland.
  • Some observations on Irish Otter holts.
  • Historic Walrus tusk from Co. Wexford.
  • Review of: ‘Identification guide to Ireland’s grasses’
  • Review of: ‘Terns’
  • Review of: ‘Crayfish biology and culture’
  • Review of: ‘Flora of Great Britain and Ireland Volume 2: Capparaceae-Rosaceae’
  • Review of: ‘The wild plants of Bere, Dursey, Whiddy and other islands in Bantry Bay’
  • Review of: ‘Hybrid flora of the British Isles’
  • Review of: ‘648 billion sunrises, a geological miscellany of Ireland’
  • Review of: ‘Cattle in ancient and modern Ireland. Farming practices, environment and economy’
  • Review of: ‘Arthur E.J. Went. An annotated bibliography with an introduction and a guide’
  • Review of: Identification swatches from the National Biodiversity Data Centre
  • Review of: ‘Corr scéal. Crane notions’
  • Review of: ‘The breathing Burren’