It is always a treat to find these members of the family Drepanidae, with their distinctive and unusual hooked forewings…
During last Sunday’s nature stroll on the Cape Horn Trail, in addition to the thrill of finding that rare, vagrant…
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…
The first time I saw one of these Pale Green Weevils I managed to get a photo, but couldn’t collect…
Due to a tip from a friend, Craig Sondergaard and I went lace bug hunting at Powell Butte in Portland,…
There is a spot near Catherine Creek in the Columbia River Gorge where I go to find early season butterflies,…
This highly variable Geometer carries the prosaic but descriptive common names mottled grey carpet moth and yellow-lined forest looper. It…
To the best of my knowledge I had never seen a lace bug of any sort before last Saturday, and…
It is always one of the great joys of springtime to see the first California Tortoiseshells. I often begin hearing…