The most exciting find on the afternoon I encountered the Ceanothus velutinus was this spectacular Lepturobosca chrysocoma beetle. I’ve been trying to photograph one…
As I mentioned in ‘A Trip to Canyon Creek’ I had no idea of what this was when I encountered it.…
This is the handsome soldier beetle that I mentioned coming to my lights in the blog ‘First Mothing Trip of…
This carabid beetle was yet another great find by my grandson Lee on our trip to the confluence of the…
This is the last thing I’ll be posting for the next ten days or so. I’m heading off to s…
For a lepturine longhorn beetle (family Cerambycidae) that is supposedly common (I’ve found Ortholeptura valida before, one watershed to the west from…
It’s really too bad that the common name listed for this carabid beetle in Pacific Northwest Insects does not appear…
On one of my recent outings with my nbo we were up on the NF Toutle River. Morgan had stepped…
There are two types of profiles that take awhile to write. Species where there is an abundance of information about…
I was excited to have two male (though no female) Odonteus obesus come to my lights whilst mothing on the…