In the last few weeks, as I’ve walked roads, trails, and wandered forests, comparing hundreds of Douglas-firs and Western Hemlocks…
During moth week I was visited by at least one (and usually many) of these handsome noctuids every night that…
I am quite fond of these pretty Geometrid moths, but I don’t see them nearly as often as I’d like…
I hope you’ll forgive me for indulging in a bit of synesthesia here, but to my mind the delightful flight…
It is somewhat ironic to me that the first time I have found this interesting longhorn beetle, one that one…
So, this was a very cool bit of serendipity. As I described in the blog Mt. Adams, I went mothing…
The first time I found one of these Tragosoma beetles was last September while running lights at Lost Creek, up in the…
This is one of the beetles I mentioned finding in 3rd Night of Moth Week. I’ve probably seen Centrodera spurca before, most notably…
Finding this moth was just a lucky break for me, as it didn’t come to UV lights, per se, though…
Before you start cursing Rubus ursinus (variously called Pacific blackberry, Pacific dewberry, trailing blackberry, California blackberry, California dewberry, California grapeleaf dewberry, and…