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Common Hibiscus And Bumble Bee

By Mia McPherson|August 3rd, 2025|Categories: Common Hibiscus, Oklahoma, Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge|Tags: bee, bloom, blooming, blossom, blossoming, bottomland hardwood forest, bottomlands, bumble bee, bumblebee, Common Hibiscus, feeding, flowering, Hibiscus syriacus, insects, native bee, nonnative, Rose of Sharon, shrub, summer|

While at Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge yesterday morning, I photographed this Common Hibiscus bloom with a bumble bee during one of my walks.

Request For Grasshopper Identification

By Mia McPherson|July 24th, 2022|Categories: Summit County, Utah, Wasatch Mountains, Wildlife|Tags: bee, blooming, blooms, blossoms, canyon, close up, Common Mullein, European curculionid weevil, flowering, Genus Melanoplus, grasshopper, grasshoppers, Gymnaetron tetrum, identification, instar, introduced, mountains, mullein, mulliens, native, native bee, nonnative, North American Spur-throated Grasshoppers, nymph, Spur-throated Grasshopper, summer, Verbascum thapsus, weevil, weevils, yellow wildflowers|

I have struggled for the past four days trying to identify a bright green grasshopper nymph that I found on a Common Mullein up in the Wasatch Mountains.