Boloria titania in Romania by Adrian Hoskins.
Good morning! Time to #WakeUpWithWildlife & for today we've chosen this Titania's Fritillary (Boloria titania). It was taken in Romania by tour leader Adrian Hoskins.
1 spot has become available on his 2025 Romania trip in July.
Find out more on our website:
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Good morning! Let’s #WakeUpWithWildlife this Tuesday morning with this flaming gorgeous Fiery Copper (Lycaena thetis). It was photographed in the Kaçkar Mountains of Turkey of Northeast Turkey by one of our team Ben Greenaway. It’s common name alludes to its bright & dramatic colour.
Good morning!
Let’s #WakeUpWithWildlife this Tuesday morning with this flaming gorgeous Fiery Copper (Lycaena thetis).
It was photographed in the Kaçkar Mountains of Northeast Turkey by our guide Ben Greenaway.
The bright & dramatic colour surely make it one of the beautiful Lycaena around.
Ranunculus asiaticus
Ranunculus asiaticus in Rhodes, Greece.
Good morning! It's January, it's a Monday, so let's #WakeUpWithWildlife with a dash of hot red to get things going!
Persian Buttercups (Ranunculus asiaticus) from Rhodes, Greece. Taken during one of our annual botanical tours there in spring.
Agara pardalina in Peru.
We #WakeUpWithWildlife this Sunday with a Skipper (Agara pardalina) from Peru. Our last tour group there saw 582 butterfly species, of which a good number were from the Hesperiidae family.
Did you know that worldwide, approximately 3,500 of the 18,000 species of butterfly belong to this family.
Good morning!
Swallowtail (Papilio machaon) nectaring on Narcissus deficiens in Greece 🇬🇷
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Mountain scenery showing butterflies, flowers, and bears, in the Kackar Mountains of Northeast Turkey.
Good morning!
We'd like to #WakeUpWithWildlife today from the Kaçkar mountains in NE Turkey.
You can follow us there in July, for one of our flagship butterfly & botany tours. It always delivers a fine mix of European & Asian species & in a simply fantastic setting.
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Eastern Festoon butterfly in Greece.
Green-underside Blue butterfly in Greece.
Good morning!
Two non-orchid/flora highlights of our exclusive 'Rhodes Orchid Odyssey' tour for you:
Eastern Festoon (Zerynthia cerisy) & Green-underside Blue (Glaucopsyche alexis) #butterflies
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Crown Anemone flowers in Greece.
Good morning!
We see much more than #orchids on our spring tour in Rhodes. Among the other flowers we enjoy are Crown Anemones (Anemone coronaria). They paint the landscape with a range of colourful blooms, from a palette of red, deep pink, blue, violet & white.
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Time to #WakeUpWithWildlife. Sunday morning sleepy eyes? If you happen to wake up by a lake in Peru, you might also be treated to an Orange Julia #butterfly drinking your tears like this turtle! 🦋🐢👁️💧
A brown-throated Sloth (Bradypus variegatus) in Panama.
Good morning! Let's #WakeUpWithWildlife & gently welcome in the weekend with this, a Brown-throated Sloth (Bradypus variegatus). The photo was taken on one of our tours in Panama, Central America.
Meleager's Blue (Polyommatus daphnis) in Romania.
Good morning! Today we #WakeUpWithWildlife with this #BlueskyButterfly - a Meleager's Blue (Polyommatus daphnis). Photo was taken in Romania, where we'll be heading next summer for more beautiful #butterflies!
Good morning!
Let's #WakeUpWithWildlife with this green gem...
A Provence Hairstreak (Tomares ballus).
It occurs in parts of North Africa and SW Europe (Iberian Peninsula & extremely local in Southern France).
Tentative monday morning wake-up vibes from this male Pelasgian Rock Lizard (Anatololacerta pelasgiana) in Rhodes. 🦎
Have a great week everyone!
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Good morning! Today we'll #WakeUpWithWildlife with this little gem from Greece, A male Lesser Fiery Copper (Lycaena thersamon).
Good morning, from Greece with this Thread-winged Lacewing (Nemoptera sinuata) by @MattDoogue, shot on one of our macro tours.
A stunning, ethereal-like, creature & always popular with guests. Matt will be there again in 2025, check out the trip on our site!
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Had your breakfast yet!?
Let's #WakeUpWithWildlife with these Purple & lesser Purple Emperor butterflies in La Brenne, France.
Butterflies imbibe salt & minerals from all kinds of things, including 💩
Follow @SBBT_Papilio for further info & to help them conserve these beautiful butterflies.
You can also watch our very own Dr Michael de Courcy Williams talk, which features the False Apollo:
https://youtu.be/vh6V_UubHEU?si=dtXL9WBbkdav8QDI
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Seeing as it is #SkipperSaturday let's #WakeUpWithWildlife today with a few bright & beautiful species from Bolivia.
Maybe show us your skippers too?
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Good morning! This, for all those who missed the northern lights & are now seeing timelines dominated by it.
Dalmatian Pelican on Lake Kerkini in Greece, one of our favourite places & where we run 4 different tours each year. Photo tour next, in November.
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How about some wildflowers for this Wednesday's #WakeUpWithWildlife? 🌷🌸🪻
Here's a few from the Greek island of Rhodes, the location of our long-running unique & exclusive 'Orchid Odyssey' holiday. It's a lot more fun than the 10 year journey Odysseus had to make, honestly! 🙃
Today let's have a #TwoForTwoTuesday style #WakeUpWithWildlife
Rajah Brooke's Birdwing x 2 in Malaysia
European Swallowtail x 2 in Greece
Gavarnie Blue x 2 in Spain
Bhutan Glory x 2 in Bhutan
Please do join in and share your own double dose drops of nature! 📸
Ok, it may be Monday morning & back to work for many of us, but try not to feel too blue! Here's a bright Blue Morpho from Bolivia to make your day a bit better!
We'll be in Bolivia for it's brilliant butterflies next November & have 2 places left at the mo
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Let's #WakeUpWithWildlife with this beautiful Malabar Tree Nymph (Idea malabarica). An endemic of the Western Ghats in India. It is also the state butterfly for Goa, where this photo was taken by guest Allan F on our Butterflies of Goa tour.
There is an awful lot of attention seeking by some people on social media. However, nobody does it better & more truthfully than nature!
Hobart's Red Glider (Cymothoe hobarti) from Uganda.
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On #SwallowtailSunday we #WakeUpWithWildlife with this fantastic flight sequence of British Swallowtails (Papilio machaon subsp. britannicus) by @2peters, taken on one of our Norfolk trips led by local legend @patrick_barkham this year.
Let's #wakeUpWithWildlife today, with a striking butterfly - Edward's Forester (Euphaedra edwardsii).
It can be found in a number of African countries and we look forward to finding it on our 2 butterfly tours to Ghana during September.
Good morning. We #WakeUpWithWildlife today with this Milky Orchid (Neotinea lactea) from Rhodes, Greece.
We’ve been taking groups to the island since we created a unique orchid tour there 10 years ago. There’s plenty of time to join us in 2024, we go 31st March - 7th April.
Good morning. Here's a phone photo of an Apollo butterfly taken in Italy. You don't need fancy camera gear to take pics on our trips & actually we like this for the wider view & landscape/habitat context.
Let's see some of your wildlife phone pics?
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This morning we take you to Sicily, where we will be heading in April next year, for a week of fine spring flora & fauna, alongside the rich history and cultural delights which Sicily is blessed with.
Where are you waking up today? Share a snap? 📸
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Good morning!
We start the day & weekend with a postcard from NE Turkey, a special place where the flora, butterflies, and other wildlife we see, is simply wonderful!
Send us a postcard from one of your favourite wild places too?
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