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…
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…
This was possibly the first time that I have seen these dull black, flightless members of the night-stalking tiger beetles,…