British naturalist based in Rhodes, Greece | long career in conservation | founder of @greenwings - offering expert-led butterfly & botany holidays since 2010.
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🌿 A little Sunday evening daydreaming...
These photos from our Italian Dolomites holidays have us wondering: if you could wake up tomorrow anywhere in the world for a day of wildlife watching, where would you choose?
And what would you most hope to see?
📷 Paul HD & Martin W
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🦋 50 monitoring schemes across 44 countries and territories!
Greenwings is proud to be a corporate partner of Butterfly Conservation Europe.
Enjoy watching butterflies? Find your local scheme and get involved:
butterfly-monitoring.net/bms…
📷 1. Julian D.
📷 2. Ben G.
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Wait for those wings… 💙
Southern Gaudy Commodore, filmed by Steve Woodhall.
Join Steve in South Africa, 6–17 March 2027.
greenwings.co/our-holidays/b…
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🌿 Trip Report Tuesday
Clouds of Nettle-tree Butterflies and pelicans at dawn: explore our 2026 Northern Greece report.
A Greenwings original since 2013. Returning 2–9 June 2027 - just 2 places left.
Tour and report... greenwings.co/our-holidays/b…
📷 Julian D. / Pete Eeles
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🌿 Greenwings Guest Gallery
This week: Apple-Green Swallowtails (Papilio phorcas), photographed on our Uganda holiday in 2026. A striking pair with beautiful green wing bands!
📷 Regine H
#GreenwingsGuestGallery #PapilioPhorcas
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Room for one more? 🦋
Black-veined Whites (Aporia crataegi) roosting in Bulgaria, photographed by Oliver Wright on our macro tour.
Oliver leads our photography holidays in Spain, Greece & Bulgaria in 2027.
How many butterflies can you count?
📷 @OW_Photography
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Did you know that not all Bee Orchids (Ophrys species) mimic bees?
Meet Ophrys blitopertha, a unique Mediterranean orchid pollinated by a Scarab Beetle (Blitopertha lineolata).
These photos, captured in Rhodes, Greece, show this remarkable relationship in action!
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🌸 Despite heavy rain, our Crete group added Colchicum macrophyllum & C. balansae today. First recorded on Crete in 2022, C. balansae is known from just one location. Thanks to our local botanical contacts for sharing the site with us 🙏
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🌿 Two special finds on our Crete holiday today: Biarum davisii, a rare Cretan endemic, and Muscari parviflorum, the Autumn Grape Hyacinth — very rare on the island.
Join us in April or May 2027 to discover Crete’s spring orchids, and its later mountain blooms!
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🌸 Day 1 of our Crete in Autumn tour, exploring the White Mountains!
Today’s highlights included: Crocus pumilus, Colchicum cretense, Allium tardans and Narcissus obsoletus. The first three are endemic, thus grow naturally nowhere else but Crete.
A lovely start to our week!
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A blast of colour from Bolivia for #SkipperSaturday
There's about 3,500 members of the Hesperiidae family of butterflies. Here's a few of them, photographed today by one of our guides that we felt were worth sharing.
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86 Great Bustards and 166,000 Common Cranes on Day 1 of our Hungarian autumn tour.
Watching thousands of cranes come in to roost across the Puszta never gets old. A fine & fulfilling start for our guests! 🇭🇺🪶
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Bringing some mesmerizing nature to your Friday feed! 🇧🇹💧
Our local guide in Bhutan captured this beautiful video of a dragonfly laying her eggs in a mountain stream.
Have a wonderful weekend!
#FridayFeeling
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A dream photograph for me today!
A beewolf in flight predating a honeybee and just about to drop into its nest hole (bottom left)
In the nest the paralysed bee will be sealed into a chamber with an egg. Well I’m guessing you have seen “Alien”…
Canon R5 and 100mm f/2.8 L Macro
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🦋 Why do butterflies gather on damp ground?
Mud-puddling allows butterflies to take up moisture, salts & other nutrients.
Sometimes hundreds gather together - spectacular behaviour we’re fortunate to encounter on many of our Greenwings butterfly holidays.
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🌿 Greenwings Guest Gallery
A new regular feature sharing some of the wonderful wildlife photographed by guests on our holidays.
First up: a male Meleager’s Blue (Polyommatus daphnis), photographed by Gillian E. in Romania, June 2026. 🦋
