This little Noctuid was the only lifer moth I found in two night of mothing at Kelly Rupp’s along Willapa…
Last Sunday I made the leap and took a grass workshop with Cindy Roché (co-author of the wonderful book “Field…
I was very excited to find another member of the genus Omus while running lights for moths at Kelly Rupp’s…
Salal may be the first wild shrub I ever learned to identify. It was pointed out and named to me…
These members of the family Geometridae earned their occasional common name of omnivorous looper because they feed from the foliage…
This was the native plant of the trip to Long Beach Peninsula last weekend, a plant that not only had…
I was kind of thrilled to actually find this moth (family Geometridae) in an area that contained its eponymous spruces…
I don’t usually post a subspecies as a profile, but the genus Potentilla is in flux. Pacific silverweed was a…
One of the unexpected pleasures of having this website has been meeting people I otherwise wouldn’t have known. Such is…
This delicate little member of the willowherb/evening primrose family (Onagraceae) is called enchanter’s nightshade, small enchanter’s nightshade, and alpine enchanter’s…