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
🚨 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!
Καλό μήνα! (Kalo mina) or good month!
Here's one for 1st of #Orctober. A favourite of many, the Sawfly Orchid (Ophrys tenthedinifera).
This was taken locally during one of @Greenwings popular orchid focused tours, which I set up & launched back in 2013.
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 the event with a Sawfly Orchid taken on our Gargano tour by Gillian E.
Just finished a male Queen Alexandra's Birdwing 19 cm w/s, the female of which is the world's largest butterfly. Plus a print with Swallowtail, Britain's largest. richardlewington.co.uk/album.php?id=2…
This is the story of my daughter Milly & Lyme Disease. There was no rash, no "summer flu", NHS blood tests negative. And she's been ill for a quarter of her life. theguardian.com/world/2025/sep… Thanks @UKLyme@LymeResourceCtr for raising UK awareness. NHS must take this more seriously.
2 of my autumn favourites here in Greece 🇬🇷
Plain Tiger and Swallowtail. Both on Woody Fleabane, which is a seriously awesome nectar plant for insects.
Hello from Greece 🇬🇷
Cyclamen maritimum.
Sunday is the day of rest, but I’m happily working away on several new @Greenwings tours that are on the horizon & will be launched between now & the end of October.
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Good morning from Greece 🇬🇷
Classic scene this time of year, Aegean Meadow Brown (Maniola telmessia) nectaring on Carlina gummifera. Not many flowers until the autumn rains come, so these thistles are v valuable to insects.
Violet Dropwing in the obelisk position. Helps reduce the amount of direct overhead sunlight hitting their bodies, thus they maintain a healthy body temperature.
I just stay indoors and switch the air con on instead!
It’s Fritillary Friday again. Here’s a Titania’s Frit by Alice H and a Marbled Frit by Harry F.
Both images taken on one of our tours in the Vercors, France 🇫🇷
#Leptember
A few of todays highlights from our ongoing butterfly tour in South Africa - names in ALT text.
This was a new tour, which is proving to be a successful one, with all the main targets being acquired and lots more besides!
#Leptember
Dedicated to a special mother on her birthday. Gone in one sense but always present & treasured in others.
Colchicum macrophyllum, a treasure of autumn in Greece 🇬🇷
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