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Variegated Fritillary Butterfly At Sequoyah NWR

By |2023-07-30T04:45:44-06:00July 30th, 2023|Categories: Oklahoma, Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge, Variegated Fritillary Butterflies|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

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.

West Desert Butterfly Photos

By |2022-09-09T04:59:28-06:00September 9th, 2022|Categories: Camillus Crescent Butterflies, Mormon Fritillary Butterflies, Tooele County, Utah, West Desert|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

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.

Female Great Spangled Fritillary Butterfly

By |2021-07-22T05:10:41-06:00July 22nd, 2021|Categories: Great Spangled Fritillary Butterflies, Morgan County, Utah, Wasatch Mountains|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

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

Fritillary photobombing a Two-tailed Swallowtail butterfly

By |2021-07-20T05:44:59-06:00July 20th, 2021|Categories: Morgan County, Two-tailed Swallowtails, Utah, Wasatch Mountains|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Last week I photographed a fritillary butterfly photobomb a Two-tailed Swallowtail butterfly as it nectared on a Showy Milkweed high in the Wasatch Mountains.

Great Spangled Fritillary Butterfly Resting On Black Twinberry Honeysuckle

By |2021-07-22T04:47:28-06:00July 29th, 2019|Categories: Great Spangled Fritillary Butterflies, Morgan County, Utah, Wasatch Mountains, Wildflowers, Wildlife|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , |

I'm confident in my North American bird ID abilities but when it comes to Fritillary butterfly species ID in the Wasatch Mountains I feel stymied a lot of the time.

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

By |2021-05-16T06:58:44-06:00July 29th, 2018|Categories: Great Spangled Fritillary Butterflies, Morgan County, Utah, Wasatch Mountains, Wildflowers|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

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.

Fritillary Butterfly – Other Things With Wings

By |2021-05-23T06:42:28-06:00July 13th, 2018|Categories: Summit County, Utah, Wildlife|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , |

I'm going to ask for help later on today from bugguide.net with the identification of this fritillary butterfly. I don't normally have to ask for identification assistance but I need it for this other thing with wings.

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