sulphur – Mia McPherson's On The Wing Photography

Monarchs At A Crossroads In An Era Of Butterfly Decline

By Mia McPherson|March 16th, 2025|Categories: Arkansas, Monarch Butterflies, Oklahoma, Orange Sulphur Butterflies, Sebastian County, Tishomingo National Wildlife Refuge|Tags: adult, autumn, Black-eyed Susan, bloom, blooming, butterflies, butterfly, Colias eurytheme, Danaus plexippus, fall, feeding, female, flowering, garden, insects, Meadow Sage, Monarch, Monarch Butterfly, native, nectaring, Orange Sulphur, Orange Sulphur Butterfly, Rudbeckia hirta, spring, suburban, sulphur, sulphurs, wildflowers, yard, yellow wildflowers|

The contrasting fates of eastern and western Monarchs underscore that their future is still uncertain. With dedicated efforts, we can help butterfly populations rebound—but time is running out.

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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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Some Recent Butterfly Images

By Mia McPherson|September 6th, 2022|Categories: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Cabbage White Butterflies, Clouded Sulphur Butterflies, Morgan County, Utah, Wasatch Mountains, Woodland Skipper Butterflies|Tags: adult, bloom, blooming, blossom, butterflies, butterfly, Cabbage White, Cabbage White butterfly, canyon, Clouded Sulphur, Clouded Sulphur butterfly, Colias philodice, Common Sunflower, flowering, forest, Helianthus annuus, leaf, leaves, marsh, mountains, native, Ochlodes sylvanoides, Pieris rapae, resting, roadside, skipper, skippers, sulphur, sulphurs, summer, sunflower, sunflowers, wetlands, wildflowers, Woodland Skipper, Woodland Skipper Butterfly, yellow wildflowers|

This morning I wanted to share a few of my recent butterfly images taken in the marsh at Bear River MBR and high up in the Wasatch Mountains.

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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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Summer Dragonflies And Butterflies At Bear River MBR

By Mia McPherson|August 26th, 2021|Categories: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Blue-eyed Darner Dragonflies, Box Elder County, Clouded Sulphur Butterflies, Purplish Copper Butterflies, Utah|Tags: adult, bloom, blooming, Blue-eyed Darner, butterflies, butterfly, Clouded Sulphur, Colias philodice, Common Sunflower, copper, coppers, copulating, dragonflies, dragonfly, female, Helianthus annuus, Lycaena helloides, male, marsh, mating, nectaring, pair, Purplish Copper, Rhionaeschna multicolor, sky, sulphur, sulphurs, summer, sunflower, sunflowers, wetlands, wildflowers, yellow wildflowers|

Today I am sharing some of the dragonflies and butterflies I've found at Bear River MBR in the summer.

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Whakaari / White Island, New Zealand

By Mia McPherson|May 30th, 2012|Categories: Birds, New Zealand, Volcanoes, Whakaari / White Island|Tags: Australasian Gannets, bay, Bay of Plenty, bird photography, Birdlife International, Captain Cook, Crater Bay, eruptions, IBA, Important Bird Area, island, mining, Morus serrator, nature photography, New Zealand, Pōhutukawa, sulphur, water, Whakaari, White Island|

In January of 2008 I was onboard a cruise ship for a tour of New Zealand that included time spent viewing Whakaari / White Island which is an active andesite stratovolcano that rises 1,053 feet above the Bay of Plenty.

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