Finding these beautiful pink millipedes was the primary motivation for visiting the Medford area on my recent adventure, and, as…
I found 3 of these chitons (variously called black Katy chiton, black leather chiton, black chiton, leather chiton, sea prunes,…
This is the last thing I’ll be posting for the next ten days or so. I’m heading off to s…
To celebrate this being the 500th (499 by me, and one by my beloved nbo Morgan) profile of a group…
For a lepturine longhorn beetle (family Cerambycidae) that is supposedly common (I’ve found Ortholeptura valida before, one watershed to the west from…
I am always excited to find any of the woodpeckers (including flickers and sapsuckers) and Picadae is probably my favorite…
This handsome noctuid moth was a new one for me, although I’m slightly surprised that I hadn’t seen it before…
This spittlebug showed up at my lights when I was camping near a wet meadow in Skamania County, Washington. I…
I had no idea until I started researching this that they had revised the taxonomy and nomenclature of toads (in fact…
When I first saw this wasp resting on a Western Hemlock (which I might not have even noticed if I…