fritillaries – Mia McPherson's On The Wing Photography

November Gulf Fritillary Butterfly

By Mia McPherson|November 12th, 2024|Categories: Arkansas, Gulf Fritillary Butterflies, Sebastian County|Tags: adult, autumn, basking, butterflies, butterfly, Dione vanillae, fall, fritillaries, fritillary, garden, Gulf Fritillary, Gulf Fritillary butterfly, insects, nectaring, pine straw, suburban, sunlight, underside, warmth, yard|

I didn’t think I’d be seeing Gulf Fritillary butterflies well into November in Arkansas, but here they are—still fluttering around and being gorgeous.

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Striking Gulf Fritillary Butterfly In Arkansas

By Mia McPherson|October 9th, 2024|Categories: Arkansas, Birds, Gulf Fritillary Butterflies, Sebastian County|Tags: adult, autumn, butterflies, butterfly, Butterfly Bush, Dione vanillae, fall, fritillaries, fritillary, garden, Gulf Fritillary, insects, longwing butterflies, nectaring, suburban, yard|

It has been four days since I photographed this Gulf Fritillary butterfly, which was around the time I noticed my external hard drive was way too full.

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Butterfly Photos From Tishomingo National Wildlife Refuge

By Mia McPherson|May 21st, 2024|Categories: Oklahoma, Orange Sulphur Butterflies, Phaon Crescent Butterflies, Tishomingo National Wildlife Refuge, Variegated Fritillary Butterflies|Tags: adult, bloom, blooming, blooms, blossoms, bottomlands, butteflies, butterflies, butterfly, buttrflies, Colias eurytheme, coneflower, coneflowers, crescent, cresents, Euptoieta claudia, feeding, flowering, fritillaries, fritillary, insects, nectaring, Oklahoma, Orange Sulphur, Orange Sulphur Butterfly, orange wildflowers, Phaon Crescent, Phaon Crescent Butterfly, Phyciodes phaon, Ratibida columnifera, red wildflowers, spring, sulphur, sulphurs, Tishomingo National Wildlife Refuge, Tishomingo NWR, Upright Prairie Coneflower, Variegated Fritillary, Variegated Fritillary Butterfly, wildflowers, yellow wildflowers|

This morning, I wanted to share a few more things with wings: a set of butterfly photos I took recently at Tishomingo National Wildlife Refuge in Oklahoma.

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Variegated Fritillary Butterfly At Sequoyah NWR

By Mia McPherson|July 30th, 2023|Categories: Oklahoma, Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge, Variegated Fritillary Butterflies|Tags: adult, bottomland hardwood forests, bottomlands, butterflies, butterfly, Common Hedge Parsley, Euptoieta claudia, fritillaries, fritillary, fritillary butterfly, parsley, perched, spring, Steve Creek, Torilis arvensis, Variegated Fritillary, white wildflowers|

Today I am sharing three Variegated Fritillary butterfly photos that I took at Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge when I visited my friend, Steve Creek, in June.

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West Desert Butterfly Photos

By Mia McPherson|September 9th, 2022|Categories: Camillus Crescent Butterflies, Mormon Fritillary Butterflies, Tooele County, Utah, West Desert|Tags: Argynnis mormonia, butterflies, butterfly, Camillus Crescent, Camillus Crescent Butterfly, canyon, cresent, cresents, desert, fritillaries, fritillary, head on, Mormon Fritillary, Phyciodes pulchella camillus, rabbitbrush, sky island mountains, summer, wildflowers, yellow wildflowers|

Earlier this week I did some West Desert wandering and while I was there I took some butterfly photos that clumps of blooming rabbitbrush had attracted.

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Female Great Spangled Fritillary Butterfly

By Mia McPherson|July 22nd, 2021|Categories: Great Spangled Fritillary Butterflies, Morgan County, Utah, Wasatch Mountains|Tags: adult, Argynnis cybele, Black twinberry honeysuckle, butterflies, butterfly, canyon, Carduus nutans, female, forest, fritillaries, fritillary, Great Spangled Fritillary, honeysuckle, honeysuckles, Lonicera involucrata, mountains, Musk Thistle, nectaring, nonnative, pink wildflowers, summer, thistle, thistles, wildflowers|

This is a female Great Spangled Fritillary, a butterfly species that can be abundant in the Wasatch Mountains at this time of the year.

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