Very mild Winter bringing butterflies, ladybirds, roses and lawnmowers!

Global warming has a lot to answer for!

The mild weather in January and February is sending nature crazy.

Butterflies, wasps and ladybirds have been spotted in gardens around the county.

And has the grass stopped growing at all this winter? - as many lawnmowers have been motoring away since Christmas.

A temperature high of 16 degrees was recorded in Leinster last weekend - 8 degrees about the average for this time of year.

Daisies and dandelions and buttercups - and even garden roses and wild strawberry flowers - have been seen in bloom.

Yellow flowers are also appearing in gorse bushes.

A Painted Lady Butterfly was spotted in West Cork in early January - but it usually leaves Ireland in the first half of September to migrate to Africa!

Many animals such as frogs should be in hibernation but are seen hopping about.

And some birds are tricked into making nests thinking it's April.

At least Spring is alive and kicking and the winter of 2018 /2019 may be over earlier than we thought!