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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 · 23h

Cyclamen maritimum

Read more about the species here…

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

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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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Matt Berry @matthewberry.bsky.social · 1d

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

Matt Berry @matthewberry.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 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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Matt Berry @matthewberry.bsky.social · 2d

It’s the shed exoskeleton of a cicada.

Matt Berry @matthewberry.bsky.social · 2d

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 · 2d

Blimey that’s a bit special! 👌🏼

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Matt Berry @matthewberry.bsky.social · 2d

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

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 · 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 · 3d

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 · 3d

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 · 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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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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Richard Lewington @rlewington2.bsky.social · 6d

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

🚨 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

How to Orchid by Matt Berry...🙃

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youtu.be/hbO1z13WP8o?...

Funny!

#matt_berry #orchid #telegraphic_instruments

"How to Orchid" by Telepathic Instruments

YouTube video by Telepathic Instruments

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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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Matt Berry @matthewberry.bsky.social · 8d

Last day of #Leptember! Can’t go wrong with a Swallowtail I suppose.I’m happy to see them at any time.

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Patrick Barkham @patrickbarkham.bsky.social · 10d

This is the story of my daughter Milly and Lyme Disease. There was no rash, no "summer flu", NHS blood tests negative. And she's been ill for a quarter of her life.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
Thank you @lymediseaseuk.bsky.social & @lymeresourcecentre.bsky.social for raising UK awareness.

As my daughter got sicker and sicker, our quest for answers dragged on. How did we all miss the bacteria taking over her body?

I write about nature, but when Milly got sick with a mystery illness, it never occurred to me that a long-forgotten tick bite could be the cause

www.theguardian.com

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Matt Berry @matthewberry.bsky.social · 10d

Hello from Greece 🇬🇷

Cyclamen maritimum.

Sunday is the day of rest, but I’m happily working away on several new @greenwingstours.bsky.social European tours that are on the horizon & will be launched between now & the end of October.

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