Our featured tour this week is Spring Butterflies of Central & Northern Spain. While it is, of course, mainly about the butterflies - the clue's in the name! - we always keep our eyes peeled for other wildlife. And in spring, that includes orchids... mariposanature.com/tours/butterfl…

Super rare #Epipogiumaphyllum ‘Holy Grail’ #GhostOrchid And yes it’s the same species that got rediscovered from Britain after 15 years. Having been searching for this for last 5 years this time I got lucky to see 3 plants in bloom at 2 different locations in #Uttarakhand #India

Welcome to the weekend 🥳 The #GhostOrchid has been spotted flowering, in the wild, for the first time in 15 years, in an undisclosed location in #Herefordshire. Find out why 👉 bbc.in/3TccAgX Image credit: Richard Bate

A postcard's arrived from the French Alps, featuring butterfly royalty, no less - Lesser Purple Emperor! Our popular tour leader Dave Fairhurst has been away on his family holidays and, of course, he's been looking for wildlife. Turns out none of us have an off switch...

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We're still in quiet shock and awe that our brilliant orchid tour leader, Dr Richard Bate, recently found the ultimate woodland wraith, Britain's first Ghost Orchid to be recorded since 2009. Superb work, Richard!

Thanks Ticketmaster 🤦🏻‍♂️ #useless

It's Sunday, it's 8pm, so it must be #WildFlowerHour! Please share pix of wild or naturalised plants you spotted in bloom this week across Britain & Ireland, especially any #ClimbingPlants. Mystery plant? Use #WildFlowerID to summon help from friendly wildflowerhour botanists!

Thrilled to find a massive population of 430 Field Gentian plants at Aberffraw #Anglesey where there were none last year (thanks to the drought) ! Rabbit poo for scale. Surveying sites for speciesrecoverytrust #wildflowerhour

Good morning, and welcome to the new week! Our featured tour of the week is Spring Butterflies of the French Pyrenees - what we think is the perfect way to end spring with an experience full of butterflies, orchids, birds and beautiful landscapes. (1/4) mariposanature.com/tours/butterfl…

Saw there hadn't been a bog orchid (Hammarbya paludosa) record in Glen Coe (or its offshoots) since 1955 which I felt was a glaring omission from its flora, so was keeping an eye out & was happy to spot 5 plants right by the path on one outing last week.

It felt really autumnal at work today. The #fungi are beginning to stir, a carpet of Wood Pinkgill, Entoloma rhodopolium is starting to emerge across the woodland floor 🍂🍄‍🟫

1997 myself and Barry Wright missed a Cory's shearwater off Dunge by 5 minutes. Today off Shellness all that was laid to rest when we had a bird off the Hamlets, joined by Gary Howard . Awesome!

More seed collecting in #LyeValley #Fen. The pods of our Marsh Helleborine orchids are splitting & we collect & rub pods between hands over suitable short tufa-fen new areas. Maybe as long as 7 yrs to wait to see if the seed finds the soil condits OK & right fungus for symbiosis

I’ve been making teeny fairy-ring pendants! A wearable miniature scene of tiny Fly Agaric mushrooms & crisp autumn leaves captured within a glass dome pendant! Just arrived in my Etsy! 🍄🍂 #Handmade #fungi etsy.com/uk/listing/177…

Known from <15 places in England, Im sooo excited to have found this Bladderwort (Utricularia stygia) at a site in Cumbria! It’s one of 12 carnivorous plants native to Britain, and a special chappie indeed! 😍😍🌱

21/52 #OrchidsOfRhodes April 2024 #AnOrchidAWeek Ophrys polyxo I promised a pretty one this week. So how about this, from the heldreichii group? Named for German botanist, Theodor Heinrich Hermann von Heldreich. Note the large sepals and amphoroid lip 💖 #orchids #wildflowers

Great day watching dragonflies during the Valencia tour with Mariposa Nature Tours. This Violet drowping (Trithemis annulata) was one of the stars!

Thank you Birmingham City FC for remembering me☺️💙🙏🏻 I’ll be back soon💪🏻😉🙌🏻 #KRO

My best find for #FungiFriday this week, was this perfectly pointy & rather jaunty, Persistent Waxcap, Hygrocybe acutoconica! It was so vibrant! 😍💛 #fungi