Rubber Rabbitbrush – Mia McPherson's On The Wing Photography

Black-footed Drone Fly On Rabbitbrush

By Mia McPherson|October 7th, 2023|Categories: Black-footed Drone Flies, Tooele County, Utah, West Desert|Tags: adult, autumn, Black-footed Drone Fly, blooming, blooms, blossoms, drone flies, drone fly, Ericameria nauseosa, Eristalis hirta, fall, flowering, foothills, hoverflies, hoverfly, native, rabbitbrush, Rubber Rabbitbrush, sky island mountains, wildflower, yellow wildflowers|

While out in the West Desert two days ago, I photographed this adult Black-footed Drone Fly, a member of the hoverfly family, on a rabbitbrush.

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Wildflowers I Photographed In 2022

By Mia McPherson|December 29th, 2022|Categories: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Blue Elderberry, Box Elder County, Chicory, Common Mullein, Common Sunflowers, Curlycup Gumweed, Davis County, East Canyon, Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Area, Flatbud Prickly Poppy, Gray’s Biscuitroot, Hound’s Tongue, Lewis’s Flax, Longleaf Phlox, Morgan County, Mountain Goldenbanner, Parsnipflower Buckwheat, Purple Loosestrife, Roundleaf Snowberry, Rubber Rabbitbrush, Scarlet Gilia, Showy Milkweed, Silvery Lupine, Spearleaf Arnica, Sticky Purple Geraniums, Summit County, Tooele County, Utah, Utah Serviceberry, Wasatch Mountains, Western Chokecherry, White Water Crowfoot, Wood's Rose|Tags: Aster, Beardtongue, blooming, blooms, Blue Elderberry, Blue Flax, Chicory, Common Mullein, Common Sunflower, Curlycup Gumweed, Flatbud Prickly Poppy, flowering, flowers, Gray's Biscuitroot, Houndstongue, Lewis's flax, Longleaf Phlox, Mountain Goldenbanner, Parsnipflower Buckwheat, Penstemon, Prickly Poppy, Purple Loosestrife, Roundleaf Snowberry, Rubber Rabbitbrush, Scarlet Gilia, Showy Milkweed, Silvery Lupine, Spearleaf Arnica, Sticky Purple Geranium, Utah Serviceberry, Western Chokecherry, White Water-crowfoot, wildflower, wildflowers, Woods' Rose|

This morning I wanted to share some of the wildflowers I photographed in 2022. Birds are my primary subjects yet I simply can't resist focusing on wildflowers.

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Roadside Western Honey Bee and Rubber Rabbitbrush

By Mia McPherson|September 25th, 2022|Categories: Davis County, Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Area, Honey Bees, Rubber Rabbitbrush, Utah, Wildflowers|Tags: Apis mellifera, bee, bees, bloom, blooming, blossoms, Ericameria nauseosa, flowering, honey bee, honey bees, insect, native, nonnative, rabbitbrush, rabbitbrushes, roadside, Rubber Rabbitbrush, Western Honey Bee, wildflowers, yellow wildflowers|

I wanted to share this photo of a roadside Western Honey Bee in a Rubber Rabbitbrush this morning because when I look at it I think of fall.

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Clouded Sulphur Butterfly And Rabbitbrush

By Mia McPherson|September 29th, 2021|Categories: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Clouded Sulphur Butterflies, Shrubs, Utah, Wildflowers|Tags: adult, autumn, bloom, blooming, butterflies, butterfly, close up, Clouded Sulphur, Clouded Sulphur butterfly, Colias philodice, Ericameria nauseosa, fall, feeding, flowering, nectaring, rabbitbrush, ranchlands, roadside, Rubber Rabbitbrush, sulphur, sulphurs, wildflowers, yellow wildflowers|

I got lucky at one rabbitbrush when I found a Clouded Sulphur butterfly nectaring on what I believe is a Rubber Rabbitbrush.

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Adult Western Meadowlark on Blooming Rabbitbrush

By Mia McPherson|September 20th, 2017|Categories: Antelope Island State Park, Birds, Davis County, Utah, Western Meadowlarks|Tags: blooming, Ericameria nauseosa, gray rabbitbrush, meadowlark, meadowlarks, perched, rabbitbrush, Rubber Rabbitbrush, Sturnella neglecta, Western Meadowlark, wildflowers, yellow wildflower|

This Western Meadowlark perched on a blooming Rabbitbrush the first September after I had moved to Utah and I was thrilled to take this photograph on Antelope Island State Park.

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