Painted Lady Butterflies – Mia McPherson's On The Wing Photography

Birds and Wildlife From Arkansas And Sequoyah NWR In Oklahoma

By Mia McPherson|May 6th, 2024|Categories: Arkansas, Birds, Blue-winged Teals, Carolina Chickadees, Common Five-lined Skinks, Coyotes, Fox Squirrels, Great Horned Owls, House Finches, Northern Cardinals, Northern Flickers, Oklahoma, Painted Lady Butterflies, Pine Siskins, Sebastian County, Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge, Three-toed Box Turtles, Tufted Titmouses|Tags: Baeolophus bicolor, Blue-winged Teal, Bubo virginianus, Canis latrans, Cardinalis cardinalis, Carduelis pinus, Carolina Chickadee, Colaptes auratus, Coyote, Diamondback Watersnake, Fox Squirrel, Great Horned Owl, Haemorhous mexicanus, House Finch, Nerodia rhombifer, Northern Cardinal, Northern Flicker, Painted Lady Butterfly, Pine Siskin, Poecile carolinensis, Sciurus niger, Spatula discors, Terrapene carolina ssp. triunguis, Three-toed Box Turtle, Tufted Titmouse|

I'm sharing a bunch of bird and wildlife photos that I have recently photographed in my friend Steve's yard in Arkansas, and from Sequoyah NWR in Oklahoma.

Painted Lady Butterfly And Rocky Mountain Bee Plants

By Mia McPherson|June 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.

Painted Lady And Mourning Cloak Butterflies On Fragrant Sumac

By Mia McPherson|May 9th, 2019|Categories: Box Elder County, Mourning Cloak Butterflies, Painted Lady Butterflies, Utah, Wildlife|Tags: adult, Aromatic Sumac, butterflies, butterfly, Fragrant Sumac, Lemon Sumac, migratory, Mourning Cloak, Mourning Cloak Butterfly, Nymphalis antiopa, Painted Lady, Painted Lady Butterfly, Polecat Bush, Rhus aromatica, Vanessa cardui|

This Mourning Cloak butterfly I photographed five days ago not far from where I photographed the Painted Lady was also nectaring on Fragrant Sumac and it too looked a bit worn because they are a migratory butterfly species as well.