For anyone who wonders about my hiatus from writing profiles, I discuss it in the blog ‘Refocusing in Retirement’. This…
One hot day last August I was walking through the local cemetery looking for bugs and I saw several good…
Proving the adage that habitat is where you find it, I found these very cool members of the wasp family…
For many decades the Alaska Yellowjacket was considered to be the same species as the European Vespula vulgaris, although there…
Despite all of the bad press they garner with foraging forays into backyard barbecues, Vespula pensylvanica is a very useful…
The Odorous House Ant is yet another insect which invades our homes in autumn. Their common name comes from an…
This is one of the most common bumble bees on the west side of the PNW. It is fairly large,…