bees – Mia McPherson's On The Wing Photography

Focusing On Eastern Carpenter Bees

By Mia McPherson|September 30th, 2024|Categories: Arkansas, Eastern Carpenter Bees, Sebastian County|Tags: adult, autumn, bee, bees, blooming, blooms, blossoms, carpenter bee, carpenter bees, Eastern Carpenter Bee, fall, female, flight, flowering, garden, insects, male, Sedum, urban, Xylocopa virginica, yard|

If I hadn’t been focused on photographing insects two days ago, I wouldn’t be able to share these photos of female and male Eastern Carpenter Bees.

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Black-eyed Susan Photos With Insects

By Mia McPherson|June 14th, 2024|Categories: Black-eyed Susans, Johnston County, Oklahoma, Tishomingo National Wildlife Refuge|Tags: Andrena rudbeckiae, bee, bees, Black-eyed Susan, bloom, blooming, blossom, bottomlands, caterpillar, Coneflower MIning Bee, field, flower, flowering, insect, nectaring, riny, roadside, Rudbeckia hirta, spring, wildflowers, yellow wildflowers|

When I traveled to Tishomingo recently, I spent some time taking photos of Black-eyed Susans. In the process, I also found insects eating or nectaring on them.

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Roadside Western Honey Bee and Rubber Rabbitbrush

By Mia McPherson|September 25th, 2022|Categories: Davis County, Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Area, Honey Bees, Rubber Rabbitbrush, Utah, Wildflowers|Tags: Apis mellifera, bee, bees, bloom, blooming, blossoms, Ericameria nauseosa, flowering, honey bee, honey bees, insect, native, nonnative, rabbitbrush, rabbitbrushes, roadside, Rubber Rabbitbrush, Western Honey Bee, wildflowers, yellow wildflowers|

I wanted to share this photo of a roadside Western Honey Bee in a Rubber Rabbitbrush this morning because when I look at it I think of fall.

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Common Sunflower Photos

By Mia McPherson|August 21st, 2022|Categories: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Common Sunflowers, Utah|Tags: bee, bees, Blister Beetle, blooming, blooms, blossoms, Cantharidin, Common Green Bottle Fly, Common Sunflower, European Skipper, Flesh Fly, flies, flowering, fly, Helianthus annuus, hugs, Long-horned Bee, Lucilia sericata, marsh, midge, midges, native, Sarcophagidae, skipper, skipper butterflies, skippers, summer, sunflower, sunflowers, Thymelicus lineola, Tribe Eucerini, wetlands, wildflowers, yellow wildflowers, Zonitis sayi|

This morning I wanted to share my recent Common Sunflower photos from Bear River MBR and some of the insects that pollinate these native wildflowers.

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World Bee Day 2022

By Mia McPherson|May 20th, 2022|Categories: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Great Basin Bumble Bees, Long-horned Bees, Midges, Utah, Wildflowers|Tags: bee, bees, bloom, blooming, blossom, Bombus centralis, bumble bee, bumble bees, Common Sunflower, Great Basin Bumble Bee, Helianthus annuus, Long-horned Bee, Longhorn Bee, marsh, midges, native, Tribe Eucerini, wildflower, wildflowers, yellow wildflowers|

May 20th is World Bee Day and I am sharing a photo of two native bees this morning. The Great Basin Bumble Bee and the Long-horned Bee. Native bees are important pollinators.

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Western Honey Bee And Common Mullein Photos

By Mia McPherson|September 3rd, 2021|Categories: Honey Bees, Morgan County, Utah, Wasatch Mountains, Wildflowers|Tags: Apis mellifera, bee, bees, bloom, blooming, canyon, Common Mullein, European Honeybee, flight, flowering, flying, introduced, mountains, mullein, mulleins, non-native, nonnative, pollen, riparian zone, summer, Western Honeybee|

Both Common Mullein and the Western Honey Bee are introduced, non-native species yet I can't resist photographing them when given the opportunity.

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Surprise Pine Siskin

By Mia McPherson|July 8th, 2021|Categories: Birds, Morgan County, Pine Siskins, Utah, Wasatch Mountains, Wildflowers|Tags: adult, bee, bees, blooming, canyon, Carduelis pinus, Carduus nutans, finch, finches, flowering, mountains, Musk Thistle, nonnative, Pine Siskin, pink wildflowers, purple wildflowers, siskin, siskins, thistle, thistles, wildflowers|

Yesterday morning I was high in the Wasatch Mountains photographing bees on a Musk Thistle when a Pine Siskin landed on the flower.

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Common Sunflower, Great Basin Bumble Bee And Long-horned Bee At Bear River MBR

By Mia McPherson|August 21st, 2020|Categories: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Great Basin Bumble Bees, Long-horned Bees, Utah, Wildflowers|Tags: bee, bees, bloom, blooming, Bombus centralis, bumble bee, bumble bees, Central Bumble Bee, Common Sunflower, Great Basin Bumble Bee, Helianthus annuus, Long-horned Bee, Longhorn Bee, pollinators, Tribe Eucerini, wildflower, wildflowers, yellow wildflowers|

When I photographed this Common Sunflower I noticed the Great Basin Bumble Bee right away then I saw the other bee and what appears to be two midges on the upper left quadrant of the flower petals.

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Blooming Desert Globemallows – Orange Wildflowers That Brighten the Desert

By Mia McPherson|May 22nd, 2018|Categories: Box Elder County, Utah, Wildflowers|Tags: Apricot globe-mallow, Apricot mallow, arid, bees, desert, Desert Globemallow, Desert mallow, drought-tolerant, native, native bees, nectar, orange wildflowers, perennial, pollen, Sphaeralcea ambigua, Spiral Jetty, wildflower, wildflowers|

The wildflowers I photographed are Desert Globemallows (Sphaeralcea ambigua) and they were blooming abundantly on the road to the jetty, I don't think I have seen so many of them in full bloom before.

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Calliope Hummingbirds

By Mia McPherson|August 29th, 2013|Categories: Antelope Island State Park, Birds, Calliope Hummingbirds, Davis County, Utah, Wildflowers|Tags: bee, bees, Calliope Hummingbird, desert island, Digger Bee, feeding, flight, flying, hummingbird, hummingbirds, perched, pink wildflowers, Rocky Mountain Bee Plant, Stellula calliope, summer|

I believe these are Calliope Hummingbirds but if I am wrong please do not hesitate to correct me, I don't get upset about things like that.

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