beetle – Mia McPherson's On The Wing Photography

Horned Passalus Beetle Photos From Oklahoma

By Mia McPherson|July 26th, 2023|Categories: Horned Passalus Beetles, Oklahoma, Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge|Tags: adult, beetle, beetles, bess beetles, Betsey Beetles, bottomland hardwood forests, bottomlands, crawling, decaying, fallen, food, Horned Passalus Beetle, insects, log, Odontotaenius disjunctus, Patent-leather Beetles, searching, spring, tree, wood|

I'm focusing on beetles this morning. More precisely, I'm sharing Horned Passalus Beetle photos that I took at Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge in Oklahoma.

Ornate Checkered Beetle In Sticky Purple Geraniums

By Mia McPherson|July 1st, 2022|Categories: Ornate Checkered Beetles, Sticky Purple Geraniums, Summit County, Utah, Wasatch Mountains|Tags: beetle, beetles, blooming, blooms, blossoms, canyon, flowering, geranium, Geranium viscosissimum, geraniums, insects, mountains, native, Ornate Checkered Beetle, perennial, pink wildflowers, protocarnivorous, purple wildflowers, Sticky Geranium, Sticky Purple Geranium, summer, Trichodes ornatus, wildflower, wildflowers|

When my trips to the field are slow bird-wise there is always something else to focus on. Earlier this week it was an Ornate Checkered Beetle on Sticky Purple Geraniums.

Blooming Lewis’s Flax

By Mia McPherson|June 6th, 2021|Categories: Tooele County, Utah, West Desert, Wildflowers|Tags: bee, beetle, blooming, blooms, blue wildflowers, desert, drought, flax, flowering, Lewis's flax, Linum lewisii, mountains, prolonged drought conditions, sky island mountains, wildflowers|

I wanted to follow my post about a blue bird with blue wildflowers so here are some photos I took last week of Lewis’s Flax which are also known as Wild Blue Flax.