Common Green Bottle Fly

Blooming Coreopsis And A Fly

By Mia McPherson|June 7th, 2023|Categories: Trees, Shrubs and Flowers|Tags: blooming, blooms, blossom, bug, Common Green Bottle Fly, coreopsis, flies, flower, fly, garden, insects, yellow|

This morning's coreopsis photo didn't bug me because it had a fly on one of the flowers. In fact the fly didn’t bother me at all.

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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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