{"id":158419,"date":"2025-09-29T04:19:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T09:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=158419"},"modified":"2025-09-29T04:19:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T09:19:06","slug":"resting-hackberry-emperor-butterfly-in-oklahoma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2025\/09\/29\/resting-hackberry-emperor-butterfly-in-oklahoma\/","title":{"rendered":"Resting Hackberry Emperor Butterfly In Oklahoma"},"content":{"rendered":"

Late last week I was glad to have a resting Hackberry Emperor butterfly in my viewfinder for a few moments at Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge in Oklahoma.<\/p>\n

\"HackberryHackberry Emperor butterfly resting on a leaf \u2013 Canon R7, handheld, f8, 1\/2500, ISO 1250, -0.7 EV, Canon EF 100-400mm II at 400mm, natural light<\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019d only photographed this butterfly species one other time, in July of 2024<\/a>. I\u2019m always up for taking photos of other things with wings, especially butterflies.<\/p>\n

I do wish I could have gotten a bit closer to the butterfly, but the ditch between me and this Hackberry Emperor<\/span><\/a> was filled with water from recent rains. Had that ditch been dry, I would have at least attempted to get closer to the resting butterfly.<\/p>\n

The very next day, I photographed another Hackberry Emperor butterfly at home with my cell phone! I should have brought out my R7 and photographed it, because it hung around basking in the sunlight for at least forty-five minutes.<\/p>\n

The setting? A new four by four porch support that really wasn\u2019t very appealing to me at all.<\/p>\n

I guess I just need to get back out into the field and look for more of these beauties before it\u2019s too late in the season to find them.<\/p>\n

I adore having them in my viewfinder.<\/p>\n

Life is<\/em> good.<\/p>\n

Mia<\/p>\n

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

Late last week I was glad to have a resting Hackberry Emperor butterfly in my viewfinder for a few moments at Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge in Oklahoma.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":158416,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15375,13973,13974],"tags":[4004,15391,970,14190,13984,6041,6042,4620,15384,15385,1799,5679,4156],"class_list":["post-158419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hackberry-emperor-butterflies","category-oklahoma","category-sequoyah-national-wildlife-refuge","tag-adult","tag-asterocampa-celtis","tag-autumn","tag-bottomland-hardwood-forest","tag-bottomlands","tag-butterflies","tag-butterfly","tag-fall","tag-hackberry-emperor","tag-hackberry-emperor-butterfly","tag-insects","tag-leaf","tag-resting"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/hackberry-emperor-butterfly-fall-mia-mcpherson-8982.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p11Mom-Fd9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":130863,"url":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2024\/07\/20\/hackberry-emperor-butterfly-on-the-hood\/","url_meta":{"origin":158419,"position":0},"title":"Hackberry Emperor Butterfly On The Hood","author":"Mia McPherson","date":"July 20, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"While I was at Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge yesterday morning, I had a very unique experience photographing a lovely Hackberry Emperor Butterfly.","rel":"","context":"In "Hackberry Emperor Butterflies"","block_context":{"text":"Hackberry Emperor Butterflies","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/category\/wildlife\/hackberry-emperor-butterflies\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Hackberry Emperor butterfly with wings spread, Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge, Oklahoma","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Hackberry-Emperor-sequoyah-mia-mcpherson-4089.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Hackberry-Emperor-sequoyah-mia-mcpherson-4089.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Hackberry-Emperor-sequoyah-mia-mcpherson-4089.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Hackberry-Emperor-sequoyah-mia-mcpherson-4089.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":136405,"url":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2024\/11\/07\/question-mark-butterfly-at-sequoyah-national-wildlife-refuge\/","url_meta":{"origin":158419,"position":1},"title":"Question Mark Butterfly At Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge","author":"Mia McPherson","date":"November 7, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"I've been meaning to share this Question Mark butterfly I photographed at Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge since last month. 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