crescent – Mia McPherson's On The Wing Photography

Cooperative Pearl Crescent Butterfly At Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge

By Mia McPherson|August 22nd, 2025|Categories: Oklahoma, Pearl Crescent Butterflies, Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge|Tags: adult, bottomland hardwood forest, bottomlands, butterflies, butterfly, cooperative, crescent, crescents, Johnson Grass, Pearl Crescent, Pearl Crescent butterfly, Phyciodes tharos, resting, summer|

While walking one of the side roads at Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge yesterday, I found a cooperative resting Pearl Crescent butterfly.

Resting Pearl Crescent Butterfly

By Mia McPherson|July 9th, 2025|Categories: Oklahoma, Pearl Crescent Butterflies, Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge|Tags: bottomland hardwood forest, bottomlands, butterflies, butterfly, crescent, crescents, Johnson Grass, Pearl Crescent, Pearl Crescent butterfly, Phyciodes tharos, resting, summer|

Pearl Crescent butterfly patterns can vary quite a bit, which makes them a little more fun to figure out.

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.