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The Irish Naturalists’ Journal Ltd is a not-for-profit scientific journal with occasional publications on Irish natural history since 1925

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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: https://t.co/9zCIIc2DDs #wildlife #nature

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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

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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 https://t.co/3CNI8bhw98

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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. https://t.co/TriV4CU2Pu

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Volume 40 - Ryan Mitchell reports on a species of flat-footed fly, Agathomyia cinerea, new to Ireland. For subscription details: https://t.co/MxLvigIqJW

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

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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’. https://t.co/wc5xG1fFQs

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

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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: https://t.co/MxLvigIqJW

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Volume 40 - Owen Beckett reports on The first records of the Adonis Ladybird (Hippodamia variegata) in Ireland. For subscription details: https://t.co/MxLvigIYzu

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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: https://t.co/MxLvigIYzu

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Volume 40 - Rachel Mc Kenna reports on Pristiphora conjugata, a sawfly new to Ireland. For subscription details: https://t.co/MxLvigIqJW

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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: https://t.co/MxLvigIqJW

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

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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: https://t.co/MxLvigIqJW

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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. https://t.co/VHiQ4alweb

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Volume 40 - Owen Beckett reports the first record of the non-native ladybird species Rhyzobius lophanthae (Blaisdell) in Ireland. For subscription details: https://t.co/MxLvigIYzu

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Volume 40 - Rachel Mc Kenna reports on Pristiphora leucopus (Hellén), a sawfly new to Ireland. For subscription details: https://t.co/MxLvigIqJW

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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: https://t.co/MxLvigIqJW