I’m finally ready to tackle the true firs in the genus Abies. There are 6 true firs in our region, but…
For a lepturine longhorn beetle (family Cerambycidae) that is supposedly common (I’ve found Ortholeptura valida before, one watershed to the west from…
Last Thursday, thanks to certification by people who obviously don’t know me at the Universal Life Church (though henceforth I…
I am always excited to find any of the woodpeckers (including flickers and sapsuckers) and Picadae is probably my favorite…
I recently made a trip up to the Timberline Lodge area of Mt. Hood, and one of my primary objectives…
This handsome noctuid moth was a new one for me, although I’m slightly surprised that I hadn’t seen it before…
This spittlebug showed up at my lights when I was camping near a wet meadow in Skamania County, Washington. I…
I had no idea until I started researching this that they had revised the taxonomy and nomenclature of toads (in fact…
When I first saw this wasp resting on a Western Hemlock (which I might not have even noticed if I…
Next up for the conifers is our first spruce. Engelmann Spruce is actually a very easy tree to identify. First…