When I was sitting on my stool alongside the Burnt Bridge Creek trail trying to identify the Phacelia nemoralis that I recently…
This small, handsome member of the family Rhyparochromidae (dirt-colored seed bugs) is apparently sometimes called a tuxedo bug, which seems…
Whilst photographing the Pacific poison oak featured in the last profile I encountered this rather striking twice-stabbed stink bug (which is…
It’s really obvious how much my life has changed during my 13 years of sobriety when I say that the…
This spittlebug showed up at my lights when I was camping near a wet meadow in Skamania County, Washington. I…
Back in mid-August, as I was ascending the stairs to our apartment, I spotted a green stinkbug on one of…
Backswimmers (family Notonectidae in the order Hemiptera) are very cool aquatic true bugs! For one thing they, as the name…
I was fishing on Canyon Creek in Clark County, Washington when I found these, the same day I encountered the…
This true bug in the family Coreidae was a great find for me, but maybe not such a great thing…
This was another interesting yard bug that I found when I tagged along whilst Pam watered for her friend. There…