This is my first profile of a member of the family Asilidae (robber flies; also known as assassin flies). I…
Just 3 weeks ago when I was up on the Ridge with Craig and William Sondergaard this species was just…
This wasp mimic is a very interesting soldier fly (family Stratiomyidae). For one thing the mimicry extends to having antennae…
One of the great joys of spring in the western Cascades is finding Avalanche Lilies, sometimes in large aggregations with…
This beautiful Noctuid moth is another one that, like the Ecliptopera silaceata that I recently profiled, ranges throughout the temperate…
Possibly it’s because orange is one of the colors that really ‘pops’ in a landscape for these color blind eyes;…
I have a special fondness for these sharply marked moths. Though they are superficially similar to several medium sized geometrids,…
Though I’ve thought that I had found these fairly distinctive and interesting members of the rose family before, I had…
This beautiful erebid moth is the only member of the genus Pyrrharctia. It’s larvae are the common banded wooly bear…
This distinctive member of the family Melaniaceae (corn lily) can be very common in subalpine settings, it’s tall, stalked flowering…