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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🦋 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. 🦋
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🦋 There’s more to a butterfly than the butterfly!
On Greenwings holidays, our guides look beyond the adults to find caterpillars, food plants and other life stages, revealing more about their ecology to our guests.
Apollo (Parnassius apollo), Italian Alps 🇮🇹
