One of my favorite critters to find whilst on the clock was Ocypus olens, the Devil’s Coach Horse. I fact…
This is another of the true bugs (Hemiptera) that I found under the loose bark of a decaying apple snag…
Thursday was my last day within the arena of gainful employment. It wasn’t a bad job driving people in wheelchairs…
This big carabid beetle taxa is probably the only Pterostichus I’ll ever be able to identify in the field, because…
These basidiomycete, saprobic, white rot fungi are unmistakable, as long as one looks at the underside. They have what appear…
It appears that Polyxenus is the only western North American genus in the order Polyxenida, and it is beyond my…
For a long time Turkey Tails (Trametes versicolor) have been one of the few fungi that I felt confident identifying.…
In spite of (okay, let’s be honest- at least in part because of) their disgusting lifestyle, I kind of love…
There has been a big shakeup in the genus Orthotrichum in the last few years. It has been known for…
The other day when I dropped the Lepista nuda on my workbench preparatory to doing a spore print, dozens of…