This beautiful Noctuid moth is another one that, like the Ecliptopera silaceata that I recently profiled, ranges throughout the temperate…
I have a special fondness for these sharply marked moths. Though they are superficially similar to several medium sized geometrids,…
This beautiful erebid moth is the only member of the genus Pyrrharctia. It’s larvae are the common banded wooly bear…
For the 4th of July weekend I went camping/mothing with my friend Craig Sondergaard and his grandson William. Our destination…
It is always a pleasure to find these little Noctuids, but it is not a rare one. They have surprised…
The taxonomy of species presently considered to be in the genus Callophrys is in flux. In fact it’s kind of…
This little Noctuid was the only lifer moth I found in two night of mothing at Kelly Rupp’s along Willapa…
These members of the family Geometridae earned their occasional common name of omnivorous looper because they feed from the foliage…
I was kind of thrilled to actually find this moth (family Geometridae) in an area that contained its eponymous spruces…
One of the unexpected pleasures of having this website has been meeting people I otherwise wouldn’t have known. Such is…