Checkered White Butterflies – Mia McPherson's On The Wing Photography

Checkered White Butterfly On A Black-eyed Susan In Oklahoma

By Mia McPherson|March 4th, 2025|Categories: Black-eyed Susans, Checkered White Butterflies, Oklahoma, Tishomingo National Wildlife Refuge|Tags: Andrena rudbeckiae, Black-eyed Susan, bloom, blooming, blossom, bottomlands, butterflies, butterfly, Checkered White, Checkered White Butterfly, flowering, insects, native, nectaring, Pontia protodice, roadside, spring, wildflowers, yellow wildflowers|

It isn’t really spring yet, but I’ve already seen a bee, flies, moths, and butterflies. They reminded me of this Checkered White butterfly I photographed last year.

World Wetlands Day 2021

By Mia McPherson|February 2nd, 2021|Categories: American Barn Owls, American Bitterns, American Coots, Bald Eagles, Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Black-crowned Night Herons, Blue-winged Teals, Brewer's Blackbirds, Centennial Valley, Checkered White Butterflies, Cinnamon Teals, Common Mergansers, Conservation, Eight-spotted Skimmers, Environment, Fish Springs National Wildlife Refuge, Florida, Fort De Soto County Park, Great Blue Herons, Great Egrets, Greater Scaups, Green-winged Teals, Halloween Pennants, Hooded Mergansers, Least Sandpipers, Lesser Scaups, Long-tailed Weasels, Marsh Wrens, Montana, Moose, Muskrats, Northern Harriers, Northern Pintails, Northern Shovelers, Pectoral Sandpipers, Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge, Red-breasted Mergansers, Red-winged Blackbirds, Reddish Egrets, Redheads, Ruddy Ducks, Rusty Blackbirds, Sandhill Cranes, Scarlet Skimmers, Snowy Egrets, Spotted Sandpipers, Tricolored Herons, Trumpeter Swans, Tundra Swans, Utah, Variegated Meadowhawk, White-faced Ibises, Wildflowers, Wilson's Phalaropes, Yellow-crowned Night Herons, Yellow-headed Blackbirds|Tags: birds, critical, insects, plants, protection, water, wetlands, wildlife, World Wetlands Day|

February 2nd is World Wetlands Day to raise global awareness about the critical role of wetlands for people, wildlife and our planet.

Male Checkered White Butterflies On Thistles

By Mia McPherson|August 25th, 2020|Categories: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Checkered White Butterflies, Utah|Tags: adult, auto tour route, butterflies, butterfly, Checkered White, Checkered White Butterfly, male, nectaring, Pontia protodice, Southern White, Southern White Butterfly, summer, thistle, thistles|

A while back I came across some butterfly photos that I had taken on July 19, 2015 that I hadn't processed or identified so recently I went about finding out what species of butterfly I had photographed.