Exciting opportunity! 🦋📢

Corfu Butterfly Conservation and Capodistrias Museum are recruiting for an Educational Outreach Officer to help schools and communities understand and protect the butterflies that represent the natural beauty of the island.

Find out more 👉 corfubutterflyconservation.org/article.php?cu…

Marsh Fritillaries seem to be following me around! Approximately 10 today while checking out sites for the upcoming Greenwings Cotswolds Orchid days.

Selatosomus melancholicus is a Click Beetle with a patchy range across mainland Europe, but the only place it occurs in Britain or Ireland is Belmullet, Co Mayo. Nearest sites the Alps or Pyrenees! Great finish to our Ireland trip!
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Irish Marsh Orchid (Dactylorhiza kerryensis) growing in a lawn in County Mayo, seen during a ⁦⁦⁦Greenwings⁩ tour of north-west #Ireland 22/05/2024. ⁦wildflowerhour⁩ #LawnFlowers ⁦Wild Orchids UK & Ireland⁩

A few photos from tour leader Paul Harcourt Davies, sent back from Sibillini in Italy. It’s a very successful tour, with a lovely group of people, sharing wonderful sights and a common interest in nature. What could be a better holiday than that!?

Sword-leaved Helleborine (Cephalanthera longifolia) in an Atlantic rain forest, County Donegal, 21/05/2025. Seen on a Greenwings tour in north-west Ireland, lead by Sean Cole & Mike Waller. Wild Orchids UK & Ireland BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland #orchids wildflowerhour

An excellent range of talks! Including 2 from Greenwings team members 🦋

EXCITED!
During our last 2 days in Ireland, following our Greenwings tour, we explored new sites, & appear to have found a new, large population of 'machair' Pugsley's Marsh Orchids in a truly stunning location. Awaiting BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland ref.
Pics Mike Waller
Thanks Dave Suddaby

Lesser Twayblade (Neottia cordata), seen at the edge of a damp woodland in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland, 21/05/2024, while on a Greenwings #orchid tour. Wild Orchids UK & Ireland

After a successful Greenwings Emerald Isle tour, an afternoon on the machair in western Mayo today, with an exemplary reserve full of breeding waders and Irish Hares, a coast full of beauty...oh, and a bar full of local sustenance ❤️🤪

Early Marsh Orchid red variety (Dactylorhiza incarnata var. coccinea) County Sligo, 20/05/2024. Thanks to Sean Cole and Mike Waller who led a great Greenwings tour in north-west Ireland this week. Wild Orchids UK & Ireland.

Irish Marsh Orchids in abundance on the last full day of the Greenwings Emerald Isle tour. More gardens in Belmullet distract the passing driver with their displays!
Add to that a very vocal Corncrake on a beautiful windswept headland & today couldn't have been any better 🤗😍

It may not look much, but a very rare sight in the UK: - Lesser and Common Twayblades side by side.
A first for me and a great find by Mike Waller on our Greenwings Emerald Isle tour.

Mammoth Wasps 🐝 🐝

Male harassing the female. All she wants to do is eat in peace.

Rodos 🇬🇷

Mike Waller and I are piling up the Orchids on the Greenwings Orchids of the Emerald Isle Tour, but the butterflies are proving to be an equal attraction!
Beautiful Marsh Fritillary and Cryptic Wood White are the stars so far 🦋😍

First day of the Greenwings Emerald Isle trip today, with a recce prior to the arrival of guests.
Four Orchid species so far.
Looking down on Dense-flowered orchids isn't as effective as Burnt Orchid 😀

Our guests heading to Italy tomorrow are in for a floral treat! Here are just a few highlights sent back to us by tour leader Paul Harcourt Davies. Our personal fave is the 'Mankey' Orchid - hybrid been a Man & Monkey 🧍‍♂️🐒

Now Tuesday 21st May
Original date of Thu 16th May cancelled because of weather forecast.
If you can help count Dingy Skippers on Tue 21st please register your interest with Trevor, see suffolkbutterflies.org.uk/events.html for contact details

Trevor has picked Thursday 16th May for the survey. Help will be needed but please let Trevor know if you can help in case the date has to be changed at the last minute because of weather.

Garden butterfly here - the lovely Lattice Brown (Kirinia roxelana). I’ve loved it since the first time I saw it 20+ years ago, here in Rhodes 🇬🇷

Phone pic 📱 just now