bee – Mia McPherson's On The Wing Photography

Blooming Sunflower And Bee

By Mia McPherson|2022-09-28T05:42:37-05:00September 28th, 2022|Categories: Davis County, Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Area, Trees, Shrubs and Flowers, Utah, Wildlife|Tags: bee, bloom, blooming, blossom, close up, Common Sunflower, cultivar, cultivated, flowering, Helianthus annuus, sunflower, sunflowers|

Nowadays, I don't take as many photos of cultivated flowers, but in the fall, I can't help but take pictures of a sunflower field close to the nature center at Farmington Bay WMA.

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Roadside Western Honey Bee and Rubber Rabbitbrush

By Mia McPherson|2022-09-25T03:40:15-05:00September 25th, 2022|Categories: Davis County, Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Area, Honey Bees, Rubber Rabbitbrush, Utah, Wildflowers|Tags: Apis mellifera, bee, bees, bloom, blooming, blossoms, Ericameria nauseosa, flowering, honey bee, honey bees, insect, native, nonnative, rabbitbrush, rabbitbrushes, roadside, Rubber Rabbitbrush, Western Honey Bee, wildflowers, yellow wildflowers|

I wanted to share this photo of a roadside Western Honey Bee in a Rubber Rabbitbrush this morning because when I look at it I think of fall.

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Common Sunflower Photos

By Mia McPherson|2023-09-09T04:56:04-05:00August 21st, 2022|Categories: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Common Sunflowers, Utah|Tags: bee, bees, Blister Beetle, blooming, blooms, blossoms, Cantharidin, Common Green Bottle Fly, Common Sunflower, European Skipper, Flesh Fly, flies, flowering, fly, Helianthus annuus, hugs, Long-horned Bee, Lucilia sericata, marsh, midge, midges, native, Sarcophagidae, skipper, skipper butterflies, skippers, summer, sunflower, sunflowers, Thymelicus lineola, Tribe Eucerini, wetlands, wildflowers, yellow wildflowers, Zonitis sayi|

This morning I wanted to share my recent Common Sunflower photos from Bear River MBR and some of the insects that pollinate these native wildflowers.

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Request For Grasshopper Identification

By Mia McPherson|2022-07-24T06:07:04-05:00July 24th, 2022|Categories: Summit County, Utah, Wasatch Mountains, Wildlife|Tags: bee, blooming, blooms, blossoms, canyon, close up, Common Mullein, European curculionid weevil, flowering, Genus Melanoplus, grasshopper, grasshoppers, Gymnaetron tetrum, identification, instar, introduced, mountains, mullein, mulliens, native, native bee, nonnative, North American Spur-throated Grasshoppers, nymph, Spur-throated Grasshopper, summer, Verbascum thapsus, weevil, weevils, yellow wildflowers|

I have struggled for the past four days trying to identify a bright green grasshopper nymph that I found on a Common Mullein up in the Wasatch Mountains.

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Early July Wildflowers In The Wasatch Mountains

By Mia McPherson|2022-07-16T09:11:24-05:00July 16th, 2022|Categories: Blue Elderberry, Morgan County, Musk Thistle, Parsnipflower Buckwheat, Silvery Lupine, Spearleaf Arnica, Sticky Purple Geraniums, Summit County, Utah, Washington County, Wood's Rose|Tags: Arnica longifolia, bee, beetles, blooming, blooms, blossoms, Blue Elderberry, buds, canyon, Carduus nutans, Eriogonum heracleoides, Geranium viscosissimum, Lupinus argenteus, mountains, Musk Thistle, Parsnipflower Buckwheat, ravine, Rosa woodsii, rosebuds, Sambucus cerulea, Silvery Lupine, Spearleaf Arnica, Sticky Geranium, summer, wildflowers, Woods' Rose|

I wanted to share some of the wildflowers I photographed in the first part of July that I have found in Summit and Morgan Counties high in the Wasatch Mountains.

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World Bee Day 2022

By Mia McPherson|2022-05-20T05:50:52-05:00May 20th, 2022|Categories: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Great Basin Bumble Bees, Long-horned Bees, Midges, Utah, Wildflowers|Tags: bee, bees, bloom, blooming, blossom, Bombus centralis, bumble bee, bumble bees, Common Sunflower, Great Basin Bumble Bee, Helianthus annuus, Long-horned Bee, Longhorn Bee, marsh, midges, native, Tribe Eucerini, wildflower, wildflowers, yellow wildflowers|

May 20th is World Bee Day and I am sharing a photo of two native bees this morning. The Great Basin Bumble Bee and the Long-horned Bee. Native bees are important pollinators.

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Western Honey Bee And Common Mullein Photos

By Mia McPherson|2021-09-03T05:52:32-05:00September 3rd, 2021|Categories: Honey Bees, Morgan County, Utah, Wasatch Mountains, Wildflowers|Tags: Apis mellifera, bee, bees, bloom, blooming, canyon, Common Mullein, European Honeybee, flight, flowering, flying, introduced, mountains, mullein, mulleins, non-native, nonnative, pollen, riparian zone, summer, Western Honeybee|

Both Common Mullein and the Western Honey Bee are introduced, non-native species yet I can't resist photographing them when given the opportunity.

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Two-tailed Swallowtail And Showy Milkweed

By Mia McPherson|2023-10-07T09:33:55-05:00July 14th, 2021|Categories: Morgan County, Two-tailed Swallowtails, Utah, Wasatch Mountains, Wildflowers|Tags: adult, Asclepias speciosa, bee, blooming, butterflies, butterfly, canyon, flowering, forest, male, milkweed, milkweeds, mountains, native, nectaring, Papilio multicaudata, pink wildflowers, Showy Milkweed, swallowtail, swallowtails, Two-tailed Swallowtail, wildflowers|

When I returned home and could view my images on a large screen I was able to identify this swallowtail butterfly as a male Two-tailed Swallowtail.

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Surprise Pine Siskin

By Mia McPherson|2021-07-08T05:46:35-05:00July 8th, 2021|Categories: Birds, Morgan County, Pine Siskins, Utah, Wasatch Mountains, Wildflowers|Tags: adult, bee, bees, blooming, canyon, Carduelis pinus, Carduus nutans, finch, finches, flowering, mountains, Musk Thistle, nonnative, Pine Siskin, pink wildflowers, purple wildflowers, siskin, siskins, thistle, thistles, wildflowers|

Yesterday morning I was high in the Wasatch Mountains photographing bees on a Musk Thistle when a Pine Siskin landed on the flower.

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Blooming Lewis’s Flax

By Mia McPherson|2022-04-26T09:49:15-05:00June 6th, 2021|Categories: Tooele County, Utah, West Desert, Wildflowers|Tags: bee, beetle, blooming, blooms, blue wildflowers, desert, drought, flax, flowering, Lewis's flax, Linum lewisii, mountains, prolonged drought conditions, sky island mountains, wildflowers|

I wanted to follow my post about a blue bird with blue wildflowers so here are some photos I took last week of Lewis’s Flax which are also known as Wild Blue Flax.

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Common Sunflower, Great Basin Bumble Bee And Long-horned Bee At Bear River MBR

By Mia McPherson|2024-03-03T19:36:05-06:00August 21st, 2020|Categories: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Great Basin Bumble Bees, Long-horned Bees, Utah, Wildflowers|Tags: bee, bees, bloom, blooming, Bombus centralis, bumble bee, bumble bees, Central Bumble Bee, Common Sunflower, Great Basin Bumble Bee, Helianthus annuus, Long-horned Bee, Longhorn Bee, pollinators, Tribe Eucerini, wildflower, wildflowers, yellow wildflowers|

When I photographed this Common Sunflower I noticed the Great Basin Bumble Bee right away then I saw the other bee and what appears to be two midges on the upper left quadrant of the flower petals.

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Rocky Mountain Bee Plant Plus a Bee in Flight

By Mia McPherson|2022-10-08T10:05:09-05:00September 5th, 2018|Categories: Box Elder County, Honey Bees, Utah, Wildflowers|Tags: Apis, bee, Cleomella serrulata, close up, flight, flying, green pollen, honey bee, pink wildflowers, pollen, pollen basket, Rocky Mountain Bee Plant, wildflowers|

On Sunday I was up in Box Elder County looking for birds but I also felt I had to stop and take some images of Rocky Mountain Bee Plants that were blooming along side the road.

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Prickly Poppies, Bees and a Grasshopper

By Mia McPherson|2022-08-14T17:03:12-05:00June 29th, 2017|Categories: Flatbud Prickly Poppy, Tooele County, Utah, West Desert, Wildflowers|Tags: Argemone munita, bee, bumble bee, bumblebee, Flatbud Prickly Poppy, grasshopper, Mexican poppy, poppies, Prickly Poppy, Thistle Poppy, white wildflowers, wildflowers, wildlife|

Each Prickly Poppy flower is about 3 to 5 inches across with yellow centers of clustered stamens and delicate petals that look like white crepe paper.

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American White Waterlily and a Honey Bee

By Mia McPherson|2021-05-16T08:40:15-05:00April 5th, 2015|Categories: Florida, Honey Bees, Pinellas County, Sawgrass Lake Park, Wildflowers|Tags: American White Waterlily, aquatic, bee, honey bee, Nymphaea odorata, summer, water, water lily, waterlilies, wet, wetland, wetlands, white wildflowers, wildflowers|

Once upon a time I paid more attention to wildflowers and insects and photographed them extensively when I had the chance so today I thought I would resurrect one of my old files.

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Wildflowers for Valentine’s Day

By Mia McPherson|2016-12-07T12:10:08-06:00February 14th, 2014|Categories: Florida, Roosevelt Wetlands, Sawgrass Lake Park, Wildflowers|Tags: American White Waterlily, bee, Lanced-leaved Arrowhead, nature photography, Nymphaea odorata, Sagittaria lancifolia, wildflowers|

Happy Valentine's Day! I never much cared for cut flowers and prefer to see them in nature so today I present a wet American White Waterlily I photographed in 2007 at Sawgrass Lake Park in Florida.

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Calliope Hummingbirds

By Mia McPherson|2021-07-20T08:04:30-05:00August 29th, 2013|Categories: Antelope Island State Park, Birds, Calliope Hummingbirds, Davis County, Utah, Wildflowers|Tags: bee, bees, Calliope Hummingbird, desert island, Digger Bee, feeding, flight, flying, hummingbird, hummingbirds, perched, pink wildflowers, Rocky Mountain Bee Plant, Stellula calliope, summer|

I believe these are Calliope Hummingbirds but if I am wrong please do not hesitate to correct me, I don't get upset about things like that.

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