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

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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Butterfly Conservation Europe @europebutterfly.bsky.social · 2d

The new European Butterfly Red List will be published this Friday at the IUCN Global Biodiversity Conference. Watch this space for the shocking findings

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Matt Berry @matthewberry.bsky.social · 3d

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 · 2d

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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Greenwings Wildlife Tours @greenwingstours.bsky.social · 3d

'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 · 4d

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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Vinny Blood @orchidvinny.bsky.social · 4d

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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Greenwings Wildlife Tours @greenwingstours.bsky.social · 4d

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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Matt Berry @matthewberry.bsky.social · 5d

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 · 5d

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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WA Orchids @wa-orchids.bsky.social · 6d

Diuris longifolia - the Purple Pansy Orchid

One of the species endemic to the south west of Western Australia that is currently flowering
#orchids #Orctober #ozflora #wildoz #nativeplants #nature

Picture of an orchid flower which had two erect yellow petals with purple colour to their ends. The centre of the flower is purple/mauve in colour

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

The ultimate Greenwings butterfly! Wonderful artwork by Richard & great to see the size comparison with the Swallowtail too.

Richard Lewington @rlewington2.bsky.social · 7d

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 · 7d

Dates are 13th - 19th March 2026.

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@bsbibotany.bsky.social
#BSBICorporateSponsor
#Orctober

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

🚨 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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Matt Berry @matthewberry.bsky.social · 7d

Καλό μήνα! (Kalo mina) or good month!

Here's one for the 1st of #Orctober. A favourite of many, the Sawfly Orchid (Ophrys tenthedinifera).

This was taken locally during one of @greenwingstours.bsky.social popular orchid focused tours, which I set up & launched back in 2013.

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

Good morning & good month! #Leptember now gives way to #Orctober...

"A month long festival of orchids from around the globe! Wild or cultivated, let's celebrate these diverse & beautiful plants!"

We open with this Sawfly Orchid (Ophrys tenthredinifera) taken on our Gargano tour by Gillian E.

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

That month went fast! Thank you for all you posts Annie 😊

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rwhooster @rwhooster.bsky.social · 8d

This morning, I was pleased to find some green in the trap. For the moment, a Green-brindled Crescent NFY will suffice, but it's not a Merveille du Jour.

#teammoth #mothsmatter #moths #leptember

Green-brindled Crescent (Allophyes oxyacanthae). NFY.

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rwhooster @rwhooster.bsky.social · 8d

A Pearly Underwing from a few days ago. I didn't get this moth in past years. This year, however, may be different because I've been trapping almost every night, which has increased the chances for passing #moths to come to the light.

#teammoth #mothsmatter #leptember

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rwhooster @rwhooster.bsky.social · 8d

The Large Wainscot is the most recent of the 18 species of #moths I've photographed this year to display thanatosis.

#teammoth #mothsmatter #leptember #dramaqueenmoth

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Michał Jezierski @jezierskimt.bsky.social · 8d

Beginner's luck is a thing, and with a balmy autumn night I was quite excited for my 9th ever moth-trapping night. But Clifden Nonpareil was not on the bingo card! Also, Least Carpet, Pink-barred Sallow and Rosy Rustic. #TeamMoth #leptember #Moths @willjsmith.bsky.social

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Catherine Gulsvig @crgulsvig.bsky.social · 8d

The Viceroys are still out in force! This one was sunning himself on the gravel driveway yesterday.

It's the last day of #Leptember -- I have never seen a Viceroy this late into the month. What a funny year it's been.

#Butterflies
#Lepidoptera
#Naturephotography

Close-up of large orange butterfly on photographer's hand. His wings are adorned with black stripes radiating out from his thorax. One set of black stripes crosses the others; this is the telltale sign that the specimen is a Viceroy and not a Monarch. He has white dots all along the edges of his wings, like the Monarch, but the dots appear bolder than on the Monarch, perhaps because the orange is deeper and richer on the Viceroy and that creates a greater contrast.

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Annie Irving @sconzani.bsky.social · 8d

And just like that #Leptember is over. As butterflies are some of favourite creatures, I've really enjoyed sharing photos of them every day this month. But, for now, many of our beautiful butterflies are also fading away ...

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"Quercus" @quercus632511.bsky.social · 7d

Sorry about re-posting but forgot to tag #teammoth #mothsmatter #leptember Crimson Speckled ,this morning near Deal.

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Catherine Gulsvig @crgulsvig.bsky.social · 7d

Beautiful Clouded Sulphur on the last day of #Leptember

I love the way the pink on his wings picks up the hue of the zinnia

Nature is amazing

#Butterflies
#Lepidoptera
#Naturephotography

Close-up of a small yellow butterfly atop a deep pink zinnia. The butterfly's wings are edged in a touch of pink that reflects the colour in the flower's petals.

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