Early this winter I heard that folks were seeing a Mountain Goat in the Columbia River Gorge. I had heard…
This fairly large geometrid goes by the common name of American Tissue Moth, although I cannot seem to find out…
There are many flowering plants that are considered to be harbingers of spring. The Oemleria cerasiformis (Osoberry) that I recently…
Ditylus gracilis is a member of the family Oedemeridae, also known as false blister beetles, because they have a strong superficial…
Between the fact that they are our only routinely diurnal salamander, and their frequent visibility in the shallow waters of…
I was photographing Bryophytes in a friend’s courtyard when I saw this lady beetle on a patch of Homalothecium fulgescens…
For my first post about the fascinating family Meloidae (blister beetles) I am profiling Nemognatha lutea, a relatively common denizen…
Buffleheads are small ducks (in fact they are the smallest sea duck in North America), although the bold, black and…
Golden-mantled Ground Squirrels (some sources call them Sierra Golden-Mantled Ground Squirrels) are not rare, but it was only a couple…
Since I’m hanging out indoors today while snow falls steadily, covering every exposed horizontal surface, I thought I’d look back…