Title: White-lined Sphinx moth nectaring
Location: Antelope Island State Park, Davis County, Utah
Date: 8/5/2019
Great Spangled Fritillary butterfly resting on Black Twinberry Honeysuckle
Mia McPhersonTitle: Great Spangled Fritillary butterfly resting on Black Twinberry Honeysuckle
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Morgan County, Utah
Date: 7/28/2019
Female Common Whitetail dragonfly
Mia McPhersonTitle: Female Common Whitetail dragonfly
Location: Newport News County, Virginia
Date: 7/2/2019
Top view of a Red Admiral Butterfly on a Wax Currant
Mia McPhersonTitle: Top view of a Red Admiral Butterfly on a Wax Currant
Location: West Desert, Tooele County, Utah
Date: 5/14/2019
Red Admiral Butterfly nectaring on Wax Currant
Mia McPhersonTitle: Red Admiral Butterfly nectaring on Wax Currant
Location: West Desert, Tooele County, Utah
Date: 5/14/2019
Native
Mourning Cloak Butterfly on Fragrant Sumac
Mia McPhersonTitle: Mourning Cloak Butterfly on Fragrant Sumac
Location: Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 5/5/2019
Painted Lady Butterfly on Fragrant Sumac
Mia McPhersonTitle: Painted Lady Butterfly on Fragrant Sumac
Location: Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 4/27/2019
Bee Fly on Curlycup Gumweed
Mia McPhersonTitle: Bee Fly on Curlycup Gumweed
Location: Stansbury Mountains, West Desert, Tooele County, Utah
Date: 9/11/2018
Native
Bee Fly nectaring on Curlycup Gumweed
Mia McPhersonTitle: Bee Fly nectaring on Curlycup Gumweed
Location: Stansbury Mountains, West Desert, Tooele County, Utah
Date: 9/11/2018
Native
Curlycup Gumweed with a Bee Fly
Mia McPhersonTitle: Curlycup Gumweed with a Bee Fly
Location: Stansbury Mountains, West Desert, Tooele County, Utah
Date: 9/11/2018
Native
Bee Fly butt
Mia McPhersonTitle: Bee Fly butt
Location: Stansbury Mountains, West Desert, Tooele County, Utah
Date: 9/11/2018
Bee Fly nectaring on rabbitbrush – Possibly Bombyliinae – Anastoechus?
Mia McPhersonTitle: Bee Fly nectaring on rabbitbrush – Possibly Bombyliinae – Anastoechus?
Location: Stansbury Mountains, West Desert, Tooele County, Utah
Date: 9/11/2018
Western Branded Skipper Butterfly on blooming Rabbitbrush
Mia McPhersonTitle: Western Branded Skipper butterfly on blooming Rabbitbrush
Location: West Desert, Stansbury Mountains, Tooele County, Utah
Date: 9/6/2018
Western Branded Skipper butterfly in the Stansbury Mountains
Mia McPhersonTitle: Western Branded Skipper butterfly in the Stansbury Mountains
Location: West Desert, Stansbury Mountains, Tooele County, Utah
Date: 9/6/2018
Western Branded Skipper on Rabbitbrush
Mia McPhersonTitle: Western Branded Skipper on Rabbitbrush
Location: West Desert, Stansbury Mountains, Tooele County, Utah
Date: 9/6/2018
Western Branded Skipper Butterfly nectaring on Rabbitbrush
Mia McPhersonTitle: Western Branded Skipper butterfly nectaring on Rabbitbrush
Location: West Desert, Stansbury Mountains, Tooele County, Utah
Date: 9/6/2018
Colorado Hairstreak Butterfly with wings partially open
Mia McPhersonTitle: Colorado Hairstreak Butterfly with wings partially open
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Morgan County, Utah
Date: 8/14/2018
Resting Colorado Hairstreak Butterfly
Mia McPhersonTitle: Resting Colorado Hairstreak Butterfly
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Morgan County, Utah
Date: 8/14/2018
Great Spangled Fritillary female on a Musk Thistle
Mia McPhersonTitle: Great Spangled Fritillary female on a Musk Thistle
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Morgan County, Utah
Date: 7/26/2018
The thistle is non-native
Female Great Spangled Fritillary nectaring on Musk Thistle
Mia McPhersonTitle: Female Great Spangled Fritillary nectaring on Musk Thistle
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Morgan County, Utah
Date: 7/26/2018
The thistle is non-native
Back view of Flame Skimmer Dragonfly male
Mia McPhersonTitle: Back view of Flame Skimmer Dragonfly male
Location: Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 7/19/2018
Male Flame Skimmer Dragonfly in northern Utah
Mia McPhersonTitle: Male Flame Skimmer Dragonfly in northern Utah
Location: Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 7/19/2018
Jagged Ambush Bug on a Teasel
Mia McPhersonTitle: Jagged Ambush Bug on a Teasel
Location: Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 7/19/2018
Adult California Gull chasing brine flies at the Great Salt Lake
Mia McPhersonTitle: Adult California Gull chasing brine flies at the Great Salt Lake
Location: Antelope Island State Park, Davis County, Utah
Date: 7/13/2018
California Gull adult chasing a cloud a brine flies
Mia McPhersonTitle: California Gull adult chasing a cloud a brine flies
Location: Antelope Island State Park, Davis County, Utah
Date: 7/13/2018
Adult California Gull scooping up brine flies with its bill
Mia McPhersonTitle: Adult California Gull scooping up brine flies with its bill
Location: Antelope Island State Park, Davis County, Utah
Date: 7/13/2018
Immature California Gull eating brine flies one by one
Mia McPhersonTitle: Immature California Gull eating brine flies one by one
Location: Antelope Island State Park, Davis County, Utah
Date: 7/13/2018
Eight-spotted Skimmer Dragonfly Head On
Mia McPhersonTitle: Eight-spotted Skimmer Dragonfly Head On
Location: Farmington Bay WMA, Davis County, Utah
Date: 7/13/2018