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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ghostly Vision" data-source="post: 3198413" data-attributes="member: 11550">This species does not occur outside the coastal regions of the Mediterranean, and is highly unlikely to have occurred here naturally.  There was a collector who scattered the seed of various Mediterranean species around sites in Dorset during the 1980's, resulting in the occurrence of Ophrys bertonlonii (?) one year. It is possible that this plant is a remnant of that same action.The finder is reputable and pernicious in his fieldwork, so there is no doubt to be cast on him, even though this is his second excellent recent find (the first being ManXMonkey Orchid in Hampshire in 2013, with two (different) plants in 2014). Both of these finds are certainly the result of a large amount of hours spent in the field coupled with experience and excellent field skills.It was found in an Early Spider colony, but there is almost certainly no connection between the two, unless one assumes the person who scattered the seed did so with prior knowledge of Orchid sites and stupidly assumed it would give it more credibility if it germinated  or would be more likely to be found!All this said, Sawfly is a stunner, and to see one in England would be fantastic, whatever its origins!Sean</blockquote>