Great Spangled Fritillary Butterfly

Female Great Spangled Fritillary Butterfly High In The Wasatch Mountains

By Mia McPherson|August 30th, 2019|Categories: Great Spangled Fritillary Butterflies, Morgan County, Utah, Wasatch Mountains|Tags: Argynnis cybele, butterflies, butterfly, Carduus nutans, decreasing numbers, female, Great Spangled Fritillary, Great Spangled Fritillary Butterfly, Musk Thistle, nectaring|

Last year I saw an abundance of Great Spangled Fritillary butterflies in the Wasatch Mountains, it seemed that I could easily spot them flitting about or nectaring on thistles but this year I noticed that these and the numbers of other species of butterflies are way down in numbers

Female Great Spangled Fritillary Nectaring on Musk Thistle in the Wasatch Mountains

By Mia McPherson|July 29th, 2018|Categories: Great Spangled Fritillary Butterflies, Morgan County, Utah, Wasatch Mountains, Wildflowers|Tags: Argynnis cybele, butterflies, butterfly, Carduus nutans, female, fritillary, Great Spangled Fritillary, Great Spangled Fritillary Butterfly, Musk Thistle, nectaring, pink wildflowers, purple wildflowers, thistle, thistles, wildflowers|

Last week while I was up in a canyon in the Wasatch Mountains I spotted a female Great Spangled Fritillary butterfly nectaring on a Musk Thistle so I felt I had to take photos of she sipped the nectar of the flower.