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…
The first time I found one of these members of the family Saturnidae was last April on a road trip…
I love the members of the butterfly family Nymphalidae, but I struggle with identification of its species. This is particularly…
It is always a treat to find these members of the family Drepanidae, with their distinctive and unusual hooked forewings…
These were unquestionably the moths of the night on my trip to the McKenzie River, having never seen Sphinx chersis…
When I was at Mike and Sue’s, in the midst of the charred landscape of the Holiday Farm fire, they…