[Butterflies of Mount Adams Country]

Pine Elfin, Western Pine Elfin

Incisalia eryphon

Pine Elfin, Western Pine Elfin: Incisalia eryphon

The photo above 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 1006.

Pine Elfin, Western Pine Elfin: Incisalia eryphon

The photo above 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.

Pine Elfin, Western Pine Elfin: Incisalia eryphon

A western pine elfin resting on rabbitbush goldenweed (Ericameria bloomeri) along the Willard Springs Trail, Conboy Lake National Wildlife Refuge......May 15, 2020.


Pine Elfin: Incisalia eryphon

Western pine elfin nectaring on mahala mat flowers (Ceanothus prostratus) along an old railroad bed through the forest near the south trailhead to the western half of the Klickitat Canyon NRCA..........May 1, 2015.

Paul Slichter