{"id":141156,"date":"2025-03-04T02:30:42","date_gmt":"2025-03-04T08:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=141156"},"modified":"2025-03-04T06:11:49","modified_gmt":"2025-03-04T12:11:49","slug":"checkered-white-butterfly-on-a-black-eyed-susan-in-oklahoma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2025\/03\/04\/checkered-white-butterfly-on-a-black-eyed-susan-in-oklahoma\/","title":{"rendered":"Checkered White Butterfly On A Black-eyed Susan In Oklahoma"},"content":{"rendered":"

It isn\u2019t really spring yet, but I\u2019ve already seen a bee, flies, moths, and butterflies. They reminded me of this Checkered White butterfly I photographed last year.<\/p>\n

I was down in southern Oklahoma then and had driven to Tishomingo National Wildlife Refuge<\/span><\/a> in Johnston County on an early June morning.<\/p>\n

\"CheckeredCheckered White butterfly on a Black-eyed Susan \u2013 Nikon D500, f8, 1\/2500, ISO 800, -0.7 EV, Nikkor 500mm VR with 1.4x TC, natural light<\/span><\/p>\n

Tishomingo NWR has fields and fields of wildflowers. In the spring, those patches of wildflowers were insect magnets, drawing in beetles, bees, ants, wasps, and beautiful butterflies.<\/p>\n

I stopped to photograph this Checkered White butterfly nectaring on a Black-eyed Susan because I recognized this butterfly species. I’d photographed them before at Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge in northern Utah.<\/p>\n

I’m very much looking forward to photographing all of the insects and spiders I will be seeing soon. I bet I get a few lifer insects too!<\/p>\n

Birds are and will always be my primary and most loved subjects, I just can’t resist photographing everything else I see while out in the field. I don’t want to resist, why would ?<\/p>\n

Life is<\/em> good. Birds and nature make it even better!<\/p>\n

Mia<\/p>\n

Click here<\/span><\/a> to see more of my insect and spider photos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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