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Matt Berry

@matthewberry.bsky.social

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Uk naturalist based in Rhodes, Greece | long career in conservation | founder of @greenwingstours.bsky.social - the natural choice for high quality & expert-led butterfly, botany & other wildlife/photo tours since 2010. https://linktr.ee/greenwingstours

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Matt Berry @matthewberry.bsky.social · 10h

Should be around. I usually see them here in light open forest/scrub, woodland edges, and old olive groves.

Matt Berry @matthewberry.bsky.social · 12h

Freyer's Grayling (Hipparchia fatua) nectaring on Sea Squill (Drimia aphylla). One of the Grayling species to be seen here in Rhodes 🇬🇷 at this time of year.

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Butterfly Conservation Europe @europebutterfly.bsky.social · 1d

We are also deeply saddened that the Madeiran Large White, Pieris wollastoni, is now officially extinct: it was last seen in 1986. The full report can be downloaded here www.bc-europe.eu/documents/68...

A Museum specimen of now extinct Madeiran Large White, Pieris wollastoni (Photo: Sam Ellis)

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Butterfly Conservation Europe @europebutterfly.bsky.social · 1d

The new European Butterfly Red List shows that butterflies are under increasing threat across Europe, with the number of species at risk of extinction up from 37 to 65 (73%) in the last 10 years. See our Press Release www.bc-europe.eu/documents/68...

www.bc-europe.eu

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martinswarren.bsky.social @martinswarren.bsky.social · 1d

The new European Butterfly Red List is published today, with worrying findings. Over 1/4 (28%) of Europe’s 442 species are threatened with extinction or are close to being so. The situation is far worse for our 148 endemic species, 40% are now threatened or nearly so www.bc-europe.eu/webpage.php?...

Front cover of the European Butterfly Red List, showing Polyommatus humedasae. The report can be downloaded at https://www.bc-europe.eu/webpage.php?name=red-list-butterflies-2025

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Greenwings Wildlife Tours @greenwingstours.bsky.social · 1d

Today sees the launch of a report & full update of the IUCN European Red List of Butterflies.

Find out more on the @europebutterfly.bsky.social website:

www.bc-europe.eu/webpage.php?...

Some facts & figures are also below + 3 species of conservation concern, critically endangered - vulnerable.

Critically endangered (CR) Nevada Grayling Pseudochazara williamsi in Spain (c) Sam E

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Matt Berry @matthewberry.bsky.social · 5d

Cyclamen maritimum

Read more about the species here…

www.cyclamen.org/plants/speci...

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Greenwings Wildlife Tours @greenwingstours.bsky.social · 5d

Ophrys reinholdii is one of the Mediterraneans most beautiful & elegant looking orchids in our opinion. The best place to see it is Rhodes, where we find lots and with a nice variety of colour & marking, on our orchid tour each spring.

#orctober #orchids

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Matt Berry @matthewberry.bsky.social · 6d

Glad you like it :) I always tell myself to take more shots like this, rather than the close ups.

Matt Berry @matthewberry.bsky.social · 6d

Thanks 🙏 I can never get enough of your orchid pics and I don't have that many species to see and share here, but glad you like them.

Matt Berry @matthewberry.bsky.social · 6d

In haste before midnight hits here in Greece, here’s an Ophrys reinholdii for today’s #orctober post.

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Greenwings Wildlife Tours @greenwingstours.bsky.social · 6d

Good morning & good week from Greece 🇬🇷

For our #orctober theme today here’s one from a new tour we have there in spring, the beautiful Ophrys aesculapii.

Please share your own #orctober pics throughout the month to make it a true floral festival (otherwise the feed will be full of orcs).

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Matt Berry @matthewberry.bsky.social · 7d

It’s the shed exoskeleton of a cicada.

Matt Berry @matthewberry.bsky.social · 7d

Good 🙏🏼 it’s now Spiranthes season here too, so hope to find time to see, shoot, and share, some of those.

Matt Berry @matthewberry.bsky.social · 7d

Blimey that’s a bit special! 👌🏼

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Matt Berry @matthewberry.bsky.social · 7d

He’s more like Jabba the Hutt with legs, but far less likeable.

Matt Berry @matthewberry.bsky.social · 7d

Orchis provincialis for #orctober

You may become bored with my daily orchid posts from Rhodes this month, but as it’s my island home that’s where most of my orchid spotting is done. Please bear with me 😇

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Greenwings Wildlife Tours @greenwingstours.bsky.social · 7d

'Jimmy's Farm meets Jurassic Park'

British Swallowtail eggs to be frozen in liquid nitrogen in a cryopreservation experiment aimed at finding out if healthy butterflies can then be reared from them.

Follow the link for more details...

www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Matt Berry @matthewberry.bsky.social · 8d

For #orctober today, one of the many highlights of the @greenwings orchid tour in Rhodes this year was the hybrid between Ophrys mammosa and O. reinholdii.

I can't wait to see what we find on the 2026 one!

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Greenwings Wildlife Tours @greenwingstours.bsky.social · 8d

As a company specialising in tours featuring butterflies & botany we love images that combine those two passions, like this one...

A Heath Fritillary (Mellicta athalia) on a Globe Orchid (Traunsteinera globosa) taken on our Serbia tour this year by guest Gillian E. #orctober

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Vinny Blood @orchidvinny.bsky.social · 8d

Fantastic to be part of the 2025 Rhodes Odyssey - and seeing this species for the first time (in the wild) was a definite highlight! ☺️

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Matt Berry @matthewberry.bsky.social · 9d

My contribution for #orctober today is this…

Naked-man Orchid (Orchis italica). Never fails to raise a smile! 😀

Taken during this years equally happy @Greenwings Orchid Odyssey in Rhodes, Greece 🇬🇷

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Greenwings Wildlife Tours @greenwingstours.bsky.social · 9d

A pair of awesome orchids from South Africa for today’s #orctober post.

Pachites bodkinii & Disa multifida

Two of the many weird and wonderful species we see on our orchid tours there. Next one’s s coming up soon & we can’t wait to see what our group finds this time!

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Richard Lewington @rlewington2.bsky.social · 11d

Queen Alexandra's Birdwing - Ornithoptera alexandrae, the world's largest butterfly, male wingspan 19cm female 24 cm. Swallowtail - Papilio machaon, Britain's largest butterfly, wingspan 7cm. Print from a recent painting www.richardlewington.co.uk/album.php?id...

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Greenwings Wildlife Tours @greenwingstours.bsky.social · 11d

🚨 New Tour! We're delighted to announce the first of a suite of new European tours for 2026.

Join us for an early spring romp in Greece for orchids & other bulbous beauties - Fritillaries, Crocuses, Tulips, Irises, Romulea, Muscari, & more!

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