Absolutely the coolest moth I found on the 1st Night of Moth Week was this little orange and grey member of the…
It is always a joy to find Drasteria adumbrata (shadowy arches moths), with their interesting forewings and reniform spots that make me…
As soon as I was sure that I was looking at masses of Eriogonum umbellatum (Sulphur-flower Buckwheat) on my first trip to Mt.…
I got really lucky identifying these handsome little moths that were quite abundant on my recent trips to Mt. Hood.…
When I found the first of these on my recent trip to Mt. Hood I was very excited, because I’m…
On both of my recent trips to Mt. Hood I saw a few dozen of these pretty little noctuid moths,…
Some of the bugs that I was most disappointed in not being able to net during the trip I talk…
A couple days after I found the population of Ceanothus velutinus that I write of in that profile, I found some more…
There are only a few blues that I can identify on sight, without having to go through David Droppers’ excellent…
The most exciting find on the afternoon I encountered the Ceanothus velutinus was this spectacular Lepturobosca chrysocoma beetle. I’ve been trying to photograph one…