[Hairstreaks and Elfins East of the Cascade Moountains of Oregon and Washington]

A pine elfin as photographed at left in forest openings along the main east-west access road through the Bickleton Ridge Unit of the Klickitat Wildlife Area to the northwest of Bickleton, WA........May 28, 2017.The photograph at right shows a western pine elfin nectaring upon the flowers of bigseed biscuitroot (Lomatium macrocarpum) along the Stubblefield Trail (about one-half mile west of Stubblefield Lake, Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge.......May 8, 2019.

The photo at left shows a close-up of a pine elfin as photographed on a sedge in meadows at about 4000' along Crofton Creek immediately to the east of Crofton Butte on the southern slopes of Mt. Adams........June 18, 2006. The photo at left shows a close-up of a pine elfin as seen on Road K4000 near 4000' on the eastern slopes of Mt. Adams.........June 18, 2006.

A western pine elfin mudding amongst the leaves of threeleaf lewisia (Lewisia triphylla) near the north end of the Roads End Trail #201, Malheur National Forest and Strawberry Mountain Wilderness.....July 7, 2023.