Juliet Turner
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DPhil Biologist at @OxfordBiology 👩🏼🎓 Mostly enthusiastic about insects and plants. from North Wales 🏔️
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A small selection of the many Ophrys bee orchid hybrids & varieties we saw during last week's #OrchidsOfRhodes tour. If you'd like to join us for the best #orchid tour to Rhodes next year, with the best chances of seeing such treasures, bookings are open:
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Today marks the end of my amazing #OrchidsOfRhodes adventure 💔
I saw 50+ orchid species this week! & many other wonders thanks to the excellent guides Jon Dunn 🇺🇦 & Dr Richard Bate
(check out Mariposa Nature Tours for other wildlife adventures they offer🦋)
📍Rhodes, Greece
I found a Worm Snake! Xerotyphlops vermicularis
Easily mistaken for an earthworm, this blind snake feeds on small invertebrates and can be found living under rocks in Europe
📍 Rhodes, Greece
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Sitting among a sea of brilliant purple orchids - Anacamptis laxiflora
📍 Rhodes, Greece
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I’m mostly here looking at the ground in search of orchids and insects, but I do occasionally look up to admire the views!
📍 Rhodes, Greece
portrait by Paul Upward Photography
A glimpse into my camera roll on day 4 of my orchid adventure across Rhodes
I haven’t managed to identify all of these Ophrys species yet, but I know there are some really cool hybrids among them!
📍 Rhodes, Greece
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The photographs & the photographer 📸
Here’s another orchid species I photographed and saw for the first time today: Anacamptis laxiflora / The Loose-flowered Orchid
(thanks Roger Harding for getting that snap of me at work!)
📍 Rhodes, Greece
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A couple of phone snaps with some of the many beautiful Orchis provincialis flowers we’ve seen today
📍 Rhodes, Greece
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Another Juliet Turner special for us - an arresting hyperchromic example of Ophrys cretica ssp beloniae. We've been exploring a wonderland for Ophrys orchids today, bursting with species, variations, and that's before we touch upon the hybrids! Safe to say it's a LOT of fun.
Outstanding Ophrys rhodia variations found by guests Juliet Turner and Steph today - a chlorotic plant, and an aberration where normal lip markings have been subsumed by a pale panel. Brilliant work from Team Mariposa! We're all finding things for one another already this week.
2/4/24 Rhodes - A wonderful chlorotic example of Ophrys umbilicata ssp rhodia (Ophrys rhodia) found by one of Mariposa Nature Tours’s guests on our second day, Juliet Turner #OrchidsOfRhodes