Uk naturalist based in Greece | long career in conservation | founder of @greenwings - offering high quality & expert-led butterfly & botany tours since 2010.linktr.ee/greenwingstoursJoined August 2024
We're having a great time in South Africa's Cape Floral Kingdom right now, enjoying an amazing diversity of flora & fauna. Here's the first of several picture postcard posts...species names in ALT.
5 Purple Hairsteak butterfly eggs for 5th #Leptember
looking for them on Oak trees is a fun activity to keep your Lepidoptera intake levels up during the long cold winters in northern Europe!
You might call it 'streaking', but be careful not to be misunderstood! 🙃
Let’s have some LBJ love for #Leptember!
Described as dull & brown, but they’re also energetic & fiery so let’s not judge on looks alone.
Pigmy Skipper (Gegenes pumilio).
#Leptember is all about Lepidoptera love! Here's a home-reared Swallowtail being held carefully by my daughter, just before being released into the wilds of Greece.
IMO every child should rear caterpillars at least once in their life, to experience the magic of metamorphosis!
Good morning & hope you've had your breakfast! Here's a 'splat of blues' in Hungary, taken by @JackPerksPhoto
Life isn't all pretty flowers & fluttering wings of beauty! Butterflies imbibe essential minerals from mud, dung, and decomposing organic matter. #Leptember
A #Leptember leaf! Not all butterflies are bold & brightly coloured, many aim to blend in with their surrounding to avoid being eaten! In doing so they've evolved some amazing & beautiful designs, such as this Coenophlebia archidona. The photo was taken in Peru by Adrian Hoskins.
Good morning! It's 3rd of #Leptember so how about this trio of iconic & beautiful Rajah Brooke's Birdwing (Trogonoptera brookiana) from Malaysia?
Our lucky guests got to see 100+ of them on our recent tour covering Malaysia & Thailand. Must have been an amazing sight to witness!
A dazzling jewel to start day 2 of #Leptember with!
The Imperial Arcas (Arcas imperialis). This one was taken on one of our recent butterfly tours in Peru, by guest Jim A.
Share your worldwide butterfly & moth photos all month - please use the #Leptember tag!
Good morning! For day 2 of #Leptember here is one of natures finest, an Oleander Hawk-moth (Daphnis nerii).
A home reared specimen, held by my daughter just before its release.
First day of the month of #Leptember !
Starting off with my favourite species of all-time, the simply amazing 'technicolour dreamcoated' Peacock (Aglais io).
This time last year we launched #Leptember - a month long celebration of moths & butterflies.
Watch out for our daily uploads throughout September - and please share some of your own too! 🦋
@savebutterflies@europebutterfly
This time last year we launched #Leptember - a month long celebration of moths & butterflies.
Watch out for our daily uploads throughout September - and please share some of your own too! 🦋
@savebutterflies@europebutterfly
“The die-offs we are witnessing in our forests this year may be nature’s final alarm bell – a desperate call for action, cooperation and adaptation in how we live and operate, at the local, regional and global levels."
ekathimerini.com/in-depth/12790…
It’s Friday Froback! Another Suffolk Silver-studded Blue for you all, from a few years ago.
Beautiful butterfly but the photo masks the horrible industrial estate site it was taken on. A tiny remnant heathland habitat, where 99% had already been destroyed.
‘Butterflies & Botany’
You can’t have one without the other, and gladly I enjoy both - for finding, observing, and photographing.
Viper’s Bugloss (Echium vulgare) is a top plant for nectar, as I hope these recent shots from northern Greece demonstrate.
Female Loew's Blue (Plebejidea loewii). In Europe it is found in just a few places in the eastern Aegean. I happen to live in one of them, so its a local species to me & a kind of replacement for the Silver-studded Blues I used to enjoy back in England when I lived there.
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