You will find below the DNFC response to

Ireland’s 4th National Biodiversity Action Plan (Draft)

The text may also be downloaded from the link above

You may download a copy of the DNFC submission to the Citizens’ Assembly on Biodiversity Loss from the link below as a pdf document or alternatively you may read read it online.

THE DNFC SUBMISSION TO THE ASSEMBLY

SOME RECENT PUBLICATIONS RELATING TO LEPIDOPTERA

Life Cycles of British and Irish Butterflies by Peter Eeles, Pisces Publication
This very interesting publications covers all the butterflies naturalised in Britain and Ireland and includes both Wood White species, Leptidea sinapis and L. juvernica found in Ireland.

Atlas of Britain and Ireland’s Larger Moths by Zoé Randal, …… Angus Tyner, …..Michael O’Donnell ….. Pisces Publications.
Contains brief accounts of macromoths with photographs, flight period chart and up-to-date distribution maps.

Field Guide to the Caterpillars of Great Britain and Ireland by Barry Henwood, Phil Sterling and Richard Lewington (Illustrator)
‘Essential’ for anyone looking for a book to identify caterpillars.

WEBINARS

The UK Ladybird Survey held ladybird identification webinars earlier in 2020 (www.coeloptera.org.uk/coccinellidae/webinar) and the recordings are available on Utube links below.

1. Introduction to Indentifying and Recording Adult Ladybirds
   Part I https://youtu.be/ehoejBKCHXQ
   Part II https://youtu.be/17Exaet4Loo
2. Introduction and Recording larvae
   https://youtu.be/kvoaMwj2nsw