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Painted Lady Butterfly And Rocky Mountain Bee Plants

By Mia McPherson|2022-10-08T10:04:15-05:00June 10th, 2020|Categories: Antelope Island State Park, Davis County, Painted Lady Butterflies, Utah, Wildflowers|Tags: butterflies, butterfly, Cleomella serrulata, Cosmopolitan, nectaring, Painted Lady, Painted Lady Butterfly, pink wildflowers, pollinating, Rocky Mountain Bee Plant, Thistle Butterflies, Vanessa cardui, wildflowers|

I'd forgotten about this Painted Lady butterfly I photographed in August of 2017 that I found while photographing hummingbirds on Antelope Island State Park.

Female Black-chinned Hummingbird and a Bee Plant

By Mia McPherson|2022-10-08T10:08:46-05:00August 15th, 2014|Categories: Antelope Island State Park, Birds, Black-chinned Hummingbirds, Utah, Wildflowers|Tags: adult, Archilochus alexandri, bird photography, bird watching, birding, birds, Black-chinned Hummingbird, Cleomella serrulata, Davis County, female, flight, flying, hovering, hummingbird, hummingbirds, pollinating, pollinator, Rocky Mountain Bee Plant|

The brief appearance of this Black-chinned Hummingbird delighted me yesterday as she fed on the Rocky Mountain Bee Plant.