This is one of the beetles I mentioned finding in 3rd Night of Moth Week. I’ve probably seen Centrodera spurca before, most notably…
I’m not really much of a forager, and I can’t say I’ve ever tried the fruit of Rubus leucodermis (known as blackcaps,…
In the interests of transparency I must admit that I was informed that the chipmunks I profiled this morning were…
Since I did not kill, skin, and examine the skull and teeth of any of the little chipmunks I saw…
I got really lucky identifying these beautiful members of the family Asteraceae ( which carry the common names rabbitbrush goldenweed,…
These tiger moths used to drive me crazy (I know- short trip) when I first got into mothing, because they would…
I found the first of these large female (you can tell by the scimitar-like ovipositor) orthopterans on Friday night, as…
Well, Moth Week 2023 has come and gone. I have more or less resumed my life as a diurnal biped,…
When I was mothing down at the Vancouver Lake bottoms in Clark County, Washington (as I described in 2nd Night of…
This is yet another moth for which I can find almost no definitive information. It is a handsome and subtly…