INJ Volume 36 Part 1

The Irish Naturalists’ Journal Volume 36, Part 1 (published 22 June 2018, print circulation August 2018)

  • A quantitative study on the implications of sieve mesh size in land mollusc sampling – are snails 0.5-1 mm in size worth including?
  • Bait preference in Irish small rodents.
  • Sex ratio and adult emergence of the stonefly Perla bipunctata (Plecoptera: Perlidae) in the upper River Liffey, with notes from four additional rivers.
  • Observations on breeding of native Irish White-Clawed Crayfish (Austropotamobius pallipes) in captivity.
  • Plicatura crispa (Pers.) Rea and Gloeophyllum odoratum (Wulfén) Imazeki (Basidiomycota, Agaricomycetes) new to Ireland, from Morelands Meadow, Belfast.
  • Starnut Palm endocarps (Astrocaryum sp.) (Arecaceae, Palmae): further records from Irish and UK waters.
  • ‘Sea balls’ on Inch Strand, Co. Kerry (H 1).
  • Kapok Tree (Ceiba pentandra (L.) Gaertn.) (Malvaceae: Bombacoideae) prickle stranded at St Finian’s Bay, near Waterville, Co. Kerry
  • Range expansion of Pink Purslane (Claytonia sibirica L.) on the River Bandon, Co. Cork (H3 and H4).
  • Buttonweed (Cotula coronopifolia L.) at Portmarnock, Co. Dublin (H21)
  • Panic Veldt Grass (Ehrharta erecta L.) a grass new to Ireland.
  • Hard Fescue (Festuca brevipila R. Tracey), an overlooked neophyte grass species in Ireland?
  • Pale-coloured Brown Crab (Cancer pagurus L.) from Irish waters.
  • Duck Mussel (Anodonta anatina) records from Counties Cork and Waterford
  • First record of an epitokous glycerid (Polychaeta: Glyceridae) in Irish waters.
  • New Irish record for Steatoda triangulosa (Walckenaer, 1802), and new county records for Steatoda nobilis (Thorell, 1875), Steatoda bipunctata (Linnaeus, 1758) and Steatoda grossa (C.L. Koch, 1838).
  • New Irish bat mite records
  • Heteroptera in Co. Carlow: first county records of Aradus depressus (Aradidae), Sehirus luctuosus (Cydnidae) and eight shieldbug species
  • Records of fleas (Siphonaptera) from rats and a shrew.
  • Ranatra linearis (Linnaeus) (Hemiptera, Nepidae) and Berytinus clavipes (Fabricius) (Hemiptera, Berytidae) two species of Heteroptera new to Ireland
  • Limnephilus decipiens: a caddisfly (Trichoptera: Limnephilidae) new to the south-east of Ireland.
  • Tree Bumblebee (Bombus hypnorum) (Hymenoptera, Apidae): a bumblebee new to Ireland
  • The earliest Irish occurrence of Megalaceroea recticornis (Hemiptera, Miridae) and a first record for Co. Down
  • Lime Hawk-moth (Mimas tiliae (L.)) breeding in a suburban Dublin (H21) garden
  • An abnormally coloured Haddock (Melanogrammus aeglefinus (L.)) from the Irish Sea
  • A review of the colour variants of the Atlantic Mackerel (Scomber scombrus L.) in Irish and UK waters
  • Thresher Shark (Alopias vulpinus (Bonnaterre,)) captured off Kinsale, Co. Cork – posssibly a new Irish rod and line record.
  • A further record of the Shortfin Mako Shark (Isurus oxyrinchus Rafinesque) from Irish waters.
  • Albino and leucistic sharks (Elasmobranchii: Selachii) from Irish and British waters: Lesser Spotted Dogfish (Scyliorhinus canicula (L.)), Greater Spotted Dogfish (S. stellaris (L.)), Spurdog (Squalus acanthias L.) and Tope (Galeorhinus galeus (L.)).
  • A new record of European Smelt (Osmerus eperlanus (L.)) in the Bann Estuary, Northern Ireland.
  • Bathing in water and dust by a Common Kestrel (Falco tinnunculus).
  • Records from the Irish Whale and Dolphin Group for 2015.
  • First at-sea sighting of Blainville’s Beaked Whale (Mesoplodon densirostris Blainville) in waters over the Irish extended continental shelf.
  • Records from the Irish Whale and Dolphin Group for 2016.
  • Irish Stoat (Mustela erminea hibernica), a new species for North Bull Island Nature Reserve, Co. Dublin
  • Reviews of: ‘A catalogue and atlas of the caddisflies (Trichoptera) of Ireland’ and ‘The Stonefly (Plecoptera) of Ireland. Distribution, life histories and ecology’
  • Review of: ‘Atlas of the Predaceous Water Beetles (Hydradephaga) of Britain and Ireland’
  • Review of: ‘Collins wild flower guide. 2nd edition’
  • Review of: ‘Irish wild mammals: a guide to the literature. 4th edition’
  • Review of: ‘Flora of Great Britain and Ireland Volume 2: Capparaceae-Rosaceae’
  • Review of: ‘A less green and pleasant land. Our threatened wildlife.’
  • Review of: ‘Atlas of mammals in Ireland 2010-2015’
  • Reviews of: ‘Evening-Primroses (Oenothera) of Britain and Ireland’ and ‘Violas of Britain and Ireland’
  • Review of: ‘Whittled away: Ireland’s vanishing nature’
  • Review of: ‘Dublin Bay: nature and history’
  • Review of: ‘Britain’s spiders, a field guide’