orange wildflowers – Mia McPherson's On The Wing Photography

Gray Hairstreak Butterfly On An Upright Prairie Coneflower

By Mia McPherson|June 3rd, 2024|Categories: Gray Hairstreak Butterflies, Oklahoma, Tishomingo National Wildlife Refuge|Tags: adult, blooming, blooms, blossoms, bottomland hardwood forests, bottomlands, butterflies, butterfly, coneflower, coneflowers, field, flowering, Gray Hairstreak, hairstreak, hairstreaks, nectaring, orange wildflowers, Ratibida columnifera, red wildflowers, spring, Strymon melinus, Upright Prairie Coneflower, wildflowers, yellow wildflowers|

When I visited Tishomingo National Wildlife Refuge last week I spent some time photographing Gray Hairstreak butterflies, a butterfly species that is new to me.

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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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Common Checkered-Skipper Butterfly At Tishomingo NWR

By Mia McPherson|May 13th, 2024|Categories: Common Checkered-Skippers, Oklahoma, Tishomingo National Wildlife Refuge, Wildflowers|Tags: adult, bottomland hardwood forests, bottomlands, butterflies, butterfly, Common Checkered-Skipper, Common Checkered-Skipper butterfly, coneflowers, nectaring, orange wildflowers, Ratibida columnifera, red wildflowers, skipper, skippers, spring, Upright Prairie Coneflower, wildflowers, yellow wildflowers|

I'm sharing this Common Checkered-Skipper butterfly photo I took two days ago at Tishomingo National Wildlife Refuge. This was my last subject of the morning.

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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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