And now my first ever Adonis Blue in April! It’s a crazy early year! @dorsetbutterflies.bsky.social @savebutterflies.bsky.social @richardfoxbc.bsky.social

📢 Last minute flight-free foray to France! 1️⃣ We have 1 place available for our flora and butterfly focused tour of the Vercors, 28th May - 4th June. 🚊 Easy to travel from the UK by train to the meeting point in Lyon too. ℹ️ Find out more & book here… greenwings.co/our-holidays...

Ophrys colossaea / Ophrys holosericea subsp. colossaea #RhodesOrchidOdyssey #Greenwings #Orchids

A hyperchromatic hybrid - Anacamptis x kallithea Parents are Anacamptis fragrans x Anacamptis sancta. #RhodesOrchidOdyssey #Greenwings #Orchids

More beautiful orchids can be seen with Vinny in Hampshire this coming June… greenwings.co/our-holidays...

Greetings from Greece! Ophrys colossaea #RhodesOrchidOdyssey #Greenwings #orchids #bloomscrolling

Dear all, I'm running the London Marathon this Sunday dressed as a badger for Norfolk Wildlife Trust – to make our beautiful blue & green planet a tiny bit more beautifully blue & green! Any support for NWT gratefully received, thank you 🙏https://2026tcslondonmarathon.enthuse.com/pf/backthebadger

Orange-tips really kicked off during the warm period this week. Watched females peruse the stunningly beautiful Cuckoo Flower and lay some eggs.

Our recently completed tour of Crete was a resounding success, showcasing the island’s extraordinary biodiversity! Botanical highlights included over 50 species of #orchids and the rather rare & marvellous sight of 5 different wild #tulips in just 5 days!

A cool day on the @greenwingstours.bsky.social False Apollo tour resulted in an impromptu photography workshop (20 minutes that turned into 2 hours thanks to all of the great guest questions!), with a Small Copper then appearing as things warmed up. A favourite species for the last 50 years!

This male Orange-tip wasn't taking 'no' for an answer, despite the female clearly rejecting him by raising her abdomen, as many species in the Pieridae family do! It was nice to see so many of them flying today, along with Holly Blue in numbers not encountered for several years!

'Gorgeous Gargano' A few picture postcards from our botanical tour of the Gargano in Italy. This exclusive tour is led by Paul Harcourt Davies & his wife Lois. Italian residents & the most experienced and knowledgable guide team around, with 30+ years experience of visiting this famous Peninsula!

Just back from another very successful @greenwingstours.bsky.social tour in Greece! I'm not sure why, but this photo of a Green-underside Blue seems to evoke something about the place that I just can't put into words ... answers on a postcard!

Another great day on the @greenwingstours.bsky.social False Apollo tour. Lots of lovely Grecian Copper, including an aberrant female with elongated spots. Finding the rare Krueper's Small White was the icing on the cake!

A fantastic start to the @greenwingstours.bsky.social False Apollo tour. Not only did we find adults, but also managed to locate a few batches of False Apollo eggs on its main foodplant, Aristolochia hirta.

Tune in today at 15:00 CET to hear this expert talk on Northern European butterflies

Ophrys ferrum-equinum #RhodesOrchidOdyssey @greenwingstours.bsky.social

Goodnight from Greece with this, Fritillaria rhodia. A dainty flower, no bigger than a fingernail. A firm favourite that I love finding each spring. #RhodesOrchidOdyssey @greenwingstours.bsky.social

Some may consider this one a bit boring, but I’m fond of them. Ophrys bombyliflora - Bumblebee Orchid 🐝 #RhodesOrchidOdyssey

Cytinus hypocistis & host plant. A root parasite of Cistus bushes, and apparently it's pollinated by ants 🐜 #RhodesOrchidOdyssey

Cornwall Butterfly Conservation have made the move to Bluesky! We'll use this account to share Branch news, events, and conservation activities, and we would love to hear about your butterfly and moth sightings from across Cornwall.

Ophrys saliarisii Seen at a lovely site among another 10+ #orchid species, plus plenty of other flowers of interest such as Fritillaria rhodia, Gagea graeca, and Muscari comosum. #RhodesOrchidOdyssey @greenwingstours.bsky.social

Ophrys candica @greenwingstours.bsky.social #RhodesOrchidOdyssey #orchids

Ophrys candica @greenwingstours.bsky.social #RhodesOrchidOdyssey #orchids

Two reconnaissance trips & pre-tour site checks are taking place right now. That’s all part of our service and how we thoroughly prepare for each tour, so we can do the best we can for each and every one of the guests coming to enjoy the flora & fauna with us.

Ophrys reinholdii #RhodesOrchidOdyssey #orchids

This is such a beautiful film - a must for butterfly lovers but everyone else as well. Screenings from April 19 - go and see it in a cinema! www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ma...

And... it's all going to plan on our current Anatolian adventure. A fine mix of nature overall, including top butterfly & botany targets. Good numbers of False Apollo seen yesterday & big numbers of Orchis punctulata today - well over 100 at some sites! #orchids #butterflies #GoodTimes

Green-underside Blue on Rockrose. Phone snap. Classic scene here this time of year. #RhodesOrchidOdyssey #MuchMoreThanOrchids

Good evening & Spring Equinox from Greece 🇬🇷 A sample of my local #orchids #RhodesOrchidOdyssey

Orange-tips are nearly upon us and, surprisingly, Green Hairstreaks were seen today in Cheshire! www.ukbutterflies.co.uk/phpBB/viewto...

Good evening from Greece… Neotinea lactea / Milky #Orchid #RhodesOrchidOdyssey

Huge congrats to Mar, who led this study published in @ecography.bsky.social! doi.org/10.1002/ecog... Nymphalidae butterfly diversity in the Atlantic Forest was shaped by repeated dispersal, over millions of years, from Amazonia and the Andes, rather than by high in situ diversification

Another example of the wide variety of non-orchid wildlife wonders we see on our exclusive #RhodesOrchidOdyssey tour...

This week's challenge is to identify the species whose pupae are represented here - one from each of the 6 butterfly families ... the final two in a reply to this post! I'll give it a few days before providing the answers!

One of the many non-orchid wildlife treats on our forthcoming #RhodesOrchidOdyssey

Another fantastic day of flora in Greece for our group. Highlights included Tulipa undulatifolia, Fritillaria spetsiotica, & Ophrys ulyssea. #BSBICorporateSupporter

'Fun in the sun' on the first day of our new tour in the Peloponnese in Greece today. Fine weather, flowers, & sharing it with like-minded people is what it's all about! Conservation matters too. We give a donation to @bsbibotany.bsky.social from all our botanical tours. #BSBICorporateSupporter

Green Hairstreak nectaring on Asphodel flowers. A classic scene here in spring.

Good morning from Greece 🇬🇷 ‘M’ for March Ophrys omegaifera #RhodesOrchidOdyssey #orchids #bloomscrolling

Very warm spring day. Enjoyed Eastern Festoons and many Green Hairstreaks. Also a few Swallowtails about, including 1 impaled on a woody plant stem. Did my good deed of the day to free it.

Canary Island Large White now in crisis following likely extinction on Tenerife

Do you prefer the mountain 🏔️ or the beach 🏖️? The Mazarine blue chose both. Genomics uncover hidden diversity and lead to the description of two new subspecies from isolated montane and coastal populations in Iberia. New #butterfly #openaccess paper in #SystematicEntomology at doi.org/10.1111/syen...

Always a popular #orchid on our tour…

And this week's challenge is to identify the species whose larvae are represented here - one from each of the 6 butterfly families ... the final two in a reply to this post!

We believe our guests deserve knowledgeable & organised leaders. Site visits by local guide team Sotiris & Rachael for our botanical tour in Greece starting later this week are all part of delivering a good service. 📷Ophrys aesculapii, Fritillaria graeca, Ophrys mycenensis, Fritillaria obliqua.

Good morning from Greece in spring mode… #RhodesOrchidOdyssey #MuchMoreThanOrchids

Excited to see one of my PhD chapters now published! We found a trade-off between the quality of host plants and how warm they were for a declining grassland butterfly (Small Copper, Lycaena phlaeas) and looked at how this shaped their egg-laying choices: doi.org/10.1111/een....

Grassland butterflies are declining across Europe, but how do we reverse that trend? We have just produced a report with some simple guidance to land managers and policy makers on how to 'Bend the curve' and help increase butterflies and other pollinators. www.bc-europe.eu/webpage.php?...

Huge congratulations to our fabulous friend @commonbynature.bsky.social! His #UrbanFlora of Newcastle and North Tyneside will be out on Monday. Essential reading for everyone interested in #UrbanBotany. It'll be interesting to read it alongside @trevorthebotanist.bsky.social's #UrbanPlants book!