Well, I finally found an easy-to-identify flower fly (family Syrphidae). There is simply nothing else that looks like a well…
During this hot weather (3 consecutive days of all time record highs in the Vancouver/Portland metro area) I have finally…
Yesterday was very hot in the PNW (all time records falling everywhere; and today is forecast to be hotter), so…
I am very fond of these beetles for a variety of reasons. Not only are they rather beautiful to look…
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…
They say these big scarab beetles (family Scarabaeidae) will hiss at you, but I’ve never had that pleasure, though one…
This little Noctuid was the only lifer moth I found in two night of mothing at Kelly Rupp’s along Willapa…
I was very excited to find another member of the genus Omus while running lights for moths at Kelly Rupp’s…
These members of the family Geometridae earned their occasional common name of omnivorous looper because they feed from the foliage…