Bee orchids (Ophrys apifera) on the Purbeck coast yesterday 31/5/2026. Sadly no bicolour forma this year, but plenty of others in the less dry spots 🐝😃 @ukorchids.bsky.social @orchidvinny.bsky.social

Despite some major cliff falls over the Winter, managed to find some delighful Fly orchids and Bird's nest orchids at Blue Anchor yesterday 30/5/2026 @lizlouise.bsky.social @ukorchids.bsky.social

Some sepaloid brownish Bee orchids (Ophrys apifera) starting to appear today amongst the ordinary forms in Exeter. 29/5/2026 @ukorchids.bsky.social @orchidvinny.bsky.social

Marsh helleborine flowering alongside Bee orchids, Southern marsh-orchids, Common spotted-orchids and their hybrid Dactylorhiza x grandis in East Devon this evening 28/5/2026 😃 @orchidvinny.bsky.social @ukorchids.bsky.social

Bee orchid numbers are down this year at Dawlish Warren but a good display of Southern marsh orchids in the moister areas 😃 25/5/2026 @ukorchids.bsky.social @warrenbirding.bsky.social

Some Early marsh-orchid hybrids, probably with Common spotted-orchids (Dacylorhiza x wintoni). Somerset levels, 22/5/2026. @ukorchids.bsky.social @orchidvinny.bsky.social

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Many Bee orchids in Exeter today 22/5/2026, some going over already, self-pollinated quickly, due to the recent winds. One pale sepaloid just flowering 😃 @orchidvinny.bsky.social @ukorchids.bsky.social

Pyramidal orchids starting to flower on the A361 verges in Devon 😃 21/5/2026 @orchidvinny.bsky.social @ukorchids.bsky.social

Early marsh orchids (var incarnata), Southern marsh orchids (and spotty hybrids) flowering on the Somerset levels 21/5/2026. Chalk fragrant orchids in very tight bud. 😃 @orchidvinny.bsky.social @ukorchids.bsky.social

Frog orchids flowering on the Somerset levels 🐸 21/5/2026 @orchidvinny.bsky.social @ukorchids.bsky.social

More urban Bee orchids in Poole ...heavily strimmed but early enough that they will flower 😃 19/5/2026 @orchidvinny.bsky.social @ukorchids.bsky.social

A Bee orchid in the wind - Purbecks, Dorset 19/5/2026

A few Bee orchids in flower on the Purbeck coast today 19/5/2026 (incl. a wasp / belgarum type), quite a few in bud. Early spider orchids have all but vanished, a few in seed 😃 @orchidvinny.bsky.social @ukorchids.bsky.social

A pyramidal orchid (Anacamptis pyramidalis) just flowering, with some Bee orchids (Ophrys apifera) - A35 roadside verge, Dorset 19/5/2026 😃

Bee orchids (Ophrys apifera) - Purbeck coast, Dorset. 19/5/2026 🐝😃

Early marsh-orchids (Dactylorhiza incarnata subsp. pulchella) and Southern marsh-orchids (Dactylorhiza praetermissa) flowering a year to the day I last visited this undisturbed site in urban Bournemouth 😃 19/5/2026 @orchidvinny.bsky.social @ukorchids.bsky.social

Loose-flowered orchids etc and some things with wings ... excuse the Disphyma crassifolium, non-native and invasive on Jersey, but beautiful 😃🩷🇯🇪 18/5/2026 @ukorchids.bsky.social

Loose-flowered or Jersey orchids (Anacamptis laxiflora) with Heath spotted, Common spotted & Southern marsh-orchids. Le Noir Pre, Jersey 17/5/2026 😃🇯🇪 @ukorchids.bsky.social

Lovely Bee orchids in Poole today 🐝🐝😃17/5/2026 @orchidvinny.bsky.social @ukorchids.bsky.social

In the absence of thousands of Burnt-tip orchids, had to while away the time at Parsonage Down with other wildflowers 😃 15/5/2026

Parsonage Down - "Nil Points"; Martin Down - "Tres" - Burnt-tip orchids 😃 16/5/2026 @orchidvinny.bsky.social @lizlouise.bsky.social @stevieparsons.bsky.social

A fun but bloody chilly day out searching for Lesser Twayblade (Neottia cordata) on Exmoor 💥😃. 10/5/2026 @rogercharding.bsky.social @lizlouise.bsky.social @stevieparsons.bsky.social @ukorchids.bsky.social @orchidvinny.bsky.social

Good numbers of Bee orchids, Ophrys apifera, now flowering in Exeter 😃. No sepaloids yet though. 9/5/2026 @ukorchids.bsky.social @orchidvinny.bsky.social

Early purple orchids and bluebells alongside Green-winged orchids, Southern marsh-orchids and near flowering Common spotted-orchids in the Teign Valley, Devon this evening. 8/5/2026 @ukorchids.bsky.social @orchidvinny.bsky.social

Some honorary orchids, Yellow archangel and Bastard balm in the Teign Valley, Devon this evening, 8/5/2026. 😃

Over 700 Early purple orchids (Orchis mascula) on this slip road verge near Okehampton this evening. It is slowly scrubbing up, hopefully it'll be cut now and then. 6/5/2026 @ukorchids.bsky.social

Tour de Dorset, 4/5/2026. White helleborine, Bird's-nest orchid, Green-winged orchids, Fly orchids, Southern marsh-orchids, Greater butterfly-orchids and a fish supper 😃😋 @ukorchids.bsky.social @orchidvinny.bsky.social

Heath-spotted orchids (Dactylorhiza maculata) also in flower today 3/5/2026, East Devon Pebblebeds. @orchidvinny.bsky.social @ukorchids.bsky.social

Bee orchids (Ophrys apifera) flowering in Exeter today, 3/5/2026, a good 10 days earlier than last year 😱 @ukorchids.bsky.social @orchidvinny.bsky.social

O.fuciflora subsp biancae - lovely range of colours. Pantalica, Sicily. 24/4/2026 💛🇮🇹

Southern marsh-orchids (Dactylorhiza praetermissa) in flower (already!) at Dawlish Warren, Devon. That is early! 1/5/26 @ukorchids.bsky.social @orchidvinny.bsky.social @warrenbirding.bsky.social

Six lovely white Early-purple orchids (Orchis mascula) in a small population (~100 plants) on a road verge North of Exeter this evening 29/4/2026. Another white one close by! @rogercharding.bsky.social @orchidvinny.bsky.social @ukorchids.bsky.social

OK.... Sicily has amazingly beautiful orchids, but this whitey impregnated with purple spots on home turf had me Groovin' Slowly this evening. Anacamptis morio, Dorset 26/4/2026 🤍🇬🇧

Green-winged orchids (Anacamptis morio) in suburban Bournemouth, UK. 25/4)2026 @orchidvinny.bsky.social @ukorchids.bsky.social

Ophrys sphegodes subsp. atrata with a beetle looking chill but in defensive mode. Sicily 23/4/2026 💜🇮🇹

Hi John, do you know what sort of bush cricket this is please? On an Orchis italica in Sicily last week. Cheers, Andy.

Some of the truly wonderful Ophrys fuciflora group of orchids from Sicily last week 18-24/4/2026 💛💜🩷🇮🇹 @orchidvinny.bsky.social @ukorchids.bsky.social

An impromptu low/no colour day due to weather; Flamingoes & a cross fox (melanistic) at Vendicari NR ... a hypochromatic Mirror orchid and the real star, Ophrys lacaitae, at random roadside stops 🩷🤍🤍💛 🇮🇹 23/4/2026 @orchidvinny.bsky.social @ukorchids.bsky.social

Joy! Been looking a long time for this one ...Ophrys lacaitae 💛🇮🇹 @orchidvinny.bsky.social @ukorchids.bsky.social

Careering down Etna 🌋 after a gruelling 4000ft climb on the G-line Brompton, I saw a flash of pink, slammed the brakes & returned to an amazing clump of Orchis brancifortii 😃 Going up the pain was relieved by Dactylorhiza romana and the good old A.morio. A splendid non-orchiding day. 22/4/2026 💜💜💜🇮🇹

Ophrys lunulata & one of many confusing subsp. of Ophrys fuciflora 😃 Sicily, 21/4/2026 💜🇮🇹

Orchids at Monte Lauro, Sicily 20/2026 😃💜🇮🇹

Orchids and hybrids in Sicily 21/4/2026 💜🇮🇹

Monte Lauro, Sicily ... what a place! Soooo many orchids. Picks from 8hrs 20min in the field 🤣. Ophrys laurensis, Ophrys tenthredinifera, Anacamptis papilionacea and a Bertolonii hybrid headache. 💜🇮🇹 20/4/2026

So very many beautiful orchids at Ficuzza, Sicily today, bit overwhelming for day one! Super happy to see Ophrys pallida and Ophrys tenthredinifera amongst the swathes of Orchis italica, Orchis provincalis, Neotinea lactae, N.maculata etc. Ophrys lucifera too! 💜🇮🇹 18/4/2026

Early-purple and Green-winged orchids starting to flower at a deserted Berry Head, Devon, today 12/4/2026 @ukorchids.bsky.social

Early Purple orchid (Orchis mascula) in white - a good couple of weeks earlier than usual and before the standard ones at this site. Devon 9/4/2026 @ukorchids.bsky.social

Early Purple orchids starting to flower at Codgen, Dorset today 6/4/2026 ... Southern Marsh orchids poking through 😃