Gray Hairstreak Butterflies – Mia McPherson's On The Wing Photography

Gray Hairstreak Butterfly On An Upright Prairie Coneflower

By Mia McPherson|June 3rd, 2024|Categories: Gray Hairstreak Butterflies, Oklahoma, Tishomingo National Wildlife Refuge|Tags: adult, blooming, blooms, blossoms, bottomland hardwood forests, bottomlands, butterflies, butterfly, coneflower, coneflowers, field, flowering, Gray Hairstreak, hairstreak, hairstreaks, nectaring, orange wildflowers, Ratibida columnifera, red wildflowers, spring, Strymon melinus, Upright Prairie Coneflower, wildflowers, yellow wildflowers|

When I visited Tishomingo National Wildlife Refuge last week I spent some time photographing Gray Hairstreak butterflies, a butterfly species that is new to me.