Because these small skimmers (family Libellulidae) often fly together, and look similar, I am posting linked, back to back profiles…
I finally found a Flame Skimmer! I must admit that when I first started looking for them ten years ago…
These beautiful, but non native, pond lilies in the family Nymphaeaceae (which are oddly neither a monocot nor a eudicot,…
There is a lot to say about these large members of the weasel family (Mustelidae), but first I’d like to…
I almost missed this plant on the trip to McBride Lake. I was apparently tunnel visioned when I passed it…
This was undoubtedly the find of the day on the trip to the Mt. St. Helens area that I talk…
This blog is much more philosophy (though it could be said to devolve into self help at times) than natural…
Backswimmers (family Notonectidae in the order Hemiptera) are very cool aquatic true bugs! For one thing they, as the name…
Almost everybody is familiar with Nuphar polysepala, which goes by many common names, including yellow pond lily, great yellow cow lily, spatterdock, Indian…
These flies are abundant in the cemetery near my house, and I’ve seen many of them (or at least very…