@orientbutterflies.bsky.social
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Behalve bilateraal gynandromorfen heb je ook mozaiek gynandromorfen, waarbij vrouwelijke en mannelijke kenmerken als patchwork ineen gestrengeld zijn. Deze keizersmantel uit Z-Frankrijk bv, oranje delen zijn mannelijk, grijze delen vrouwelijk (in dit geval was gedrag overigens eerder mannelijk).
December 8, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Behalve bilateraal gynandromorfen heb je ook mozaiek gynandromorfen, waarbij vrouwelijke en mannelijke kenmerken als patchwork ineen gestrengeld zijn. Deze keizersmantel uit Z-Frankrijk bv, oranje delen zijn mannelijk, grijze delen vrouwelijk (in dit geval was gedrag overigens eerder mannelijk).
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Day 7 of our #AdventCalendar, and we've a new tour to announce with these two heavyweight European alpine rarities - Rätzer's & Yellow-banded Ringlet.
Butterflies of the Italian & Swiss Alps is already fully booked - we'll announce 2028 dates later next year.
#NaturePhotography
Butterflies of the Italian & Swiss Alps is already fully booked - we'll announce 2028 dates later next year.
#NaturePhotography
December 7, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Day 7 of our #AdventCalendar, and we've a new tour to announce with these two heavyweight European alpine rarities - Rätzer's & Yellow-banded Ringlet.
Butterflies of the Italian & Swiss Alps is already fully booked - we'll announce 2028 dates later next year.
#NaturePhotography
Butterflies of the Italian & Swiss Alps is already fully booked - we'll announce 2028 dates later next year.
#NaturePhotography
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Bonsoir, Paris!
December 6, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Bonsoir, Paris!
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Back in civilisation to play a couple of shows with the Swell Maps ...
December 4, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Back in civilisation to play a couple of shows with the Swell Maps ...
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Day 5 of our #AdventCalendar takes us to Hungary, where we saw four Phengaris large blue species in the space of a wonderful week this summer - Large, Scarce Large, Dusky Large, and Alcon Blue. Like all our butterfly tours, this one generated a donation to support @europebutterfly.bsky.social.
December 5, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Day 5 of our #AdventCalendar takes us to Hungary, where we saw four Phengaris large blue species in the space of a wonderful week this summer - Large, Scarce Large, Dusky Large, and Alcon Blue. Like all our butterfly tours, this one generated a donation to support @europebutterfly.bsky.social.
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Thursday is the new Friday. 🍸
And a new Cocktail is in the mix - Aperol Gin Sour.
It’s not without its merits
And a new Cocktail is in the mix - Aperol Gin Sour.
It’s not without its merits
December 4, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Thursday is the new Friday. 🍸
And a new Cocktail is in the mix - Aperol Gin Sour.
It’s not without its merits
And a new Cocktail is in the mix - Aperol Gin Sour.
It’s not without its merits
After a few days of poor weather in Malaga province, this afternoon just about warmed up sufficiently to tempt Spanish festoon Zerynthia rumina to bask in the sun
December 3, 2025 at 10:31 PM
After a few days of poor weather in Malaga province, this afternoon just about warmed up sufficiently to tempt Spanish festoon Zerynthia rumina to bask in the sun
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Ghosts of Dylan, Guthrie, Phil Ochs, Joni Mitchell and Richard and Mimi Farina haunt this excellent, thoroughly modern protest folk LP – highly recommended!
haleyheynderickxmaxgarciaconover.bandcamp.com/album/what-o...
haleyheynderickxmaxgarciaconover.bandcamp.com/album/what-o...
What of Our Nature, by Haley Heynderickx & Max García Conover
10 track album
haleyheynderickxmaxgarciaconover.bandcamp.com
December 3, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Ghosts of Dylan, Guthrie, Phil Ochs, Joni Mitchell and Richard and Mimi Farina haunt this excellent, thoroughly modern protest folk LP – highly recommended!
haleyheynderickxmaxgarciaconover.bandcamp.com/album/what-o...
haleyheynderickxmaxgarciaconover.bandcamp.com/album/what-o...
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French friends! I'm playing guitar with Swell Maps in Lorient, Brittany on Friday 5/11 and in Paris on Saturday 6/11 – both shows are opening for The Chameleons! Come along!
www.fnacspectacles.com/en/event/the...
www.songkick.com/concerts/426...
www.fnacspectacles.com/en/event/the...
www.songkick.com/concerts/426...
www.fnacspectacles.com
December 3, 2025 at 9:10 AM
French friends! I'm playing guitar with Swell Maps in Lorient, Brittany on Friday 5/11 and in Paris on Saturday 6/11 – both shows are opening for The Chameleons! Come along!
www.fnacspectacles.com/en/event/the...
www.songkick.com/concerts/426...
www.fnacspectacles.com/en/event/the...
www.songkick.com/concerts/426...
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You should definitely follow Sophie, she is an absolutely incredible artist and conservationist.
Hello everybody!
My name is Sophie and I’m an artist and conservationist. I had a wonderful community of friends and followers on Twitter, who flocked to Bluesky! Will you help me find them and reconnect? 😅
I’d also love recommendations of people to follow! ❤️
My name is Sophie and I’m an artist and conservationist. I had a wonderful community of friends and followers on Twitter, who flocked to Bluesky! Will you help me find them and reconnect? 😅
I’d also love recommendations of people to follow! ❤️
December 2, 2025 at 1:58 PM
You should definitely follow Sophie, she is an absolutely incredible artist and conservationist.
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Female Meleager's Blue (Polyommatus daphnis, getand blauwtje) are really beautiful butterflies. In S and SE Europe they are widespread, in C Europe local.
November 29, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Female Meleager's Blue (Polyommatus daphnis, getand blauwtje) are really beautiful butterflies. In S and SE Europe they are widespread, in C Europe local.
Interesting variation in the amount of red markings on Spanish Festoon Zerynthia rumina in Southern Spain. The upper wing base colour can also vary from pale to a deep rich yellow.
November 26, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Interesting variation in the amount of red markings on Spanish Festoon Zerynthia rumina in Southern Spain. The upper wing base colour can also vary from pale to a deep rich yellow.
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Out on the Local Patch, walked along the Rio Genil near Huétor Tajar in Granada Province this morning.
Pleased with a female Lesser-spotted Woodpecker, I picked it up as it was calling, and then she spent sometime moving around in dead trees next to the road.
More on my blog, search lojawildlife
Pleased with a female Lesser-spotted Woodpecker, I picked it up as it was calling, and then she spent sometime moving around in dead trees next to the road.
More on my blog, search lojawildlife
November 25, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Out on the Local Patch, walked along the Rio Genil near Huétor Tajar in Granada Province this morning.
Pleased with a female Lesser-spotted Woodpecker, I picked it up as it was calling, and then she spent sometime moving around in dead trees next to the road.
More on my blog, search lojawildlife
Pleased with a female Lesser-spotted Woodpecker, I picked it up as it was calling, and then she spent sometime moving around in dead trees next to the road.
More on my blog, search lojawildlife
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I sat in the car for a couple of hours by a puddle up on Cerro Hacho, near Loja this morning.
Here are a few of the visitors that came in for a drink or a bath.
More photo's soon on blog at lojawildlife
Here are a few of the visitors that came in for a drink or a bath.
More photo's soon on blog at lojawildlife
November 23, 2025 at 8:26 PM
I sat in the car for a couple of hours by a puddle up on Cerro Hacho, near Loja this morning.
Here are a few of the visitors that came in for a drink or a bath.
More photo's soon on blog at lojawildlife
Here are a few of the visitors that came in for a drink or a bath.
More photo's soon on blog at lojawildlife
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On this day 40 years ago: Managed to see, and ☑️ the 1st winter male Pied Wheatear, in the last glimmers of light, at Sheringham.
At the time just the 10th record for the U.K. Now pretty much expected as a late year finale to the years roll call of rarities.
#rarebirdsuk
At the time just the 10th record for the U.K. Now pretty much expected as a late year finale to the years roll call of rarities.
#rarebirdsuk
November 23, 2025 at 10:19 AM
On this day 40 years ago: Managed to see, and ☑️ the 1st winter male Pied Wheatear, in the last glimmers of light, at Sheringham.
At the time just the 10th record for the U.K. Now pretty much expected as a late year finale to the years roll call of rarities.
#rarebirdsuk
At the time just the 10th record for the U.K. Now pretty much expected as a late year finale to the years roll call of rarities.
#rarebirdsuk
I have to admit that when I was scraping the frost off the car window this morning in London , I didn’t expect to see these on the river wall at Rainham.
November 21, 2025 at 10:45 PM
I have to admit that when I was scraping the frost off the car window this morning in London , I didn’t expect to see these on the river wall at Rainham.
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I was live on the radio yesterday on the deXter Bentley Hello GoodBye Show on Resonance 104.4 FM (London) and Pawarota Radio (Poland), playing four new songs being recorded for the next LP – it starts about 44 mins in, but the whole show is worth an ear:
www.mixcloud.com/.../the-hell...
www.mixcloud.com/.../the-hell...
November 16, 2025 at 10:15 AM
I was live on the radio yesterday on the deXter Bentley Hello GoodBye Show on Resonance 104.4 FM (London) and Pawarota Radio (Poland), playing four new songs being recorded for the next LP – it starts about 44 mins in, but the whole show is worth an ear:
www.mixcloud.com/.../the-hell...
www.mixcloud.com/.../the-hell...
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If you're near a laptop or digital radio tomorrow, I'll be playing a few songs live and being interviewed on the mighty Resonance 104.4fm at 12.30 on DeXter Bentley's The Hello Goobye Show. Your chance to hear brand-spanking-new tunes before they're recorded!
www.resonancefm.com/programmes/5...
www.resonancefm.com/programmes/5...
Resonance FM | Shows
www.resonancefm.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:46 PM
If you're near a laptop or digital radio tomorrow, I'll be playing a few songs live and being interviewed on the mighty Resonance 104.4fm at 12.30 on DeXter Bentley's The Hello Goobye Show. Your chance to hear brand-spanking-new tunes before they're recorded!
www.resonancefm.com/programmes/5...
www.resonancefm.com/programmes/5...
Remarkable temperature in London today. Could this be my last UK butterfly this year ? It’s turning colder.
November 13, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Remarkable temperature in London today. Could this be my last UK butterfly this year ? It’s turning colder.
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Am seriously excited at the prospect of joining my @mariposanature.bsky.social co-leader, János Oláh, in August 2026 for the Romania Mammal tour operated by his superb company, Saker Tour. A few places remain available to join us...
sakertour.com/mammal-watch...
sakertour.com/mammal-watch...
November 7, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Am seriously excited at the prospect of joining my @mariposanature.bsky.social co-leader, János Oláh, in August 2026 for the Romania Mammal tour operated by his superb company, Saker Tour. A few places remain available to join us...
sakertour.com/mammal-watch...
sakertour.com/mammal-watch...
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Ophrys ortuabis is a lovely endemic #orchid we'll see on our Orchids of Sardinia tour next April.
Discovered as recently as 2002 by by Lucia Manca & Nino Mura, a couple from the town of Oristano, their story is told in 'Ortuabis', a short film by Vincenzo Rodi: (1/2)
youtube.com/watch?v=oQSo...
Discovered as recently as 2002 by by Lucia Manca & Nino Mura, a couple from the town of Oristano, their story is told in 'Ortuabis', a short film by Vincenzo Rodi: (1/2)
youtube.com/watch?v=oQSo...
November 2, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Ophrys ortuabis is a lovely endemic #orchid we'll see on our Orchids of Sardinia tour next April.
Discovered as recently as 2002 by by Lucia Manca & Nino Mura, a couple from the town of Oristano, their story is told in 'Ortuabis', a short film by Vincenzo Rodi: (1/2)
youtube.com/watch?v=oQSo...
Discovered as recently as 2002 by by Lucia Manca & Nino Mura, a couple from the town of Oristano, their story is told in 'Ortuabis', a short film by Vincenzo Rodi: (1/2)
youtube.com/watch?v=oQSo...
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Violet Copper is just one of the highlights guests on our Spring Butterflies of the French Pyrenees can look forward to seeing.
These glorious images were kindly shared with us by one of our regular guests, Clive B. We love seeing our guests' photos, and hope you do too.
#eastcoastkin #butterflies
These glorious images were kindly shared with us by one of our regular guests, Clive B. We love seeing our guests' photos, and hope you do too.
#eastcoastkin #butterflies
October 28, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Violet Copper is just one of the highlights guests on our Spring Butterflies of the French Pyrenees can look forward to seeing.
These glorious images were kindly shared with us by one of our regular guests, Clive B. We love seeing our guests' photos, and hope you do too.
#eastcoastkin #butterflies
These glorious images were kindly shared with us by one of our regular guests, Clive B. We love seeing our guests' photos, and hope you do too.
#eastcoastkin #butterflies
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On my latest Alpine trip I took the time to make some more pictures of a few widespread mountain species, like these Aricia artaxerxes and Erebia melampus.
More #butterfly pictures of this trip on my flickr page: flic.kr/s/aHBqjCyeci
More #butterfly pictures of this trip on my flickr page: flic.kr/s/aHBqjCyeci
October 28, 2025 at 10:26 AM
On my latest Alpine trip I took the time to make some more pictures of a few widespread mountain species, like these Aricia artaxerxes and Erebia melampus.
More #butterfly pictures of this trip on my flickr page: flic.kr/s/aHBqjCyeci
More #butterfly pictures of this trip on my flickr page: flic.kr/s/aHBqjCyeci
Still some end of season colour in Malaga with Z.Rumina and P.Machaon. M.Proto was added to the list of quality skippers seen over the last three days.
October 15, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Still some end of season colour in Malaga with Z.Rumina and P.Machaon. M.Proto was added to the list of quality skippers seen over the last three days.
Another great day in Tarifa enjoying the specialities the area holds with @lojawildlife.bsky.social . Spent the day trying to outwit the skippers. B. Borbonica, G. Nostradamus, C. Tripolinus, D. Chrysippus
October 14, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Another great day in Tarifa enjoying the specialities the area holds with @lojawildlife.bsky.social . Spent the day trying to outwit the skippers. B. Borbonica, G. Nostradamus, C. Tripolinus, D. Chrysippus