This extremely hairy, pretty, but non-native and invasive member of the family Boraginaceae, really confused me when I first encountered…
Last Thursday I finally reencountered some members of a small, local population of Eastern Tailed Blues. To explain why this…
Prunella vulgaris is one of the very few plants I learned to identify from Craig Sondergaard 40+ years ago (of the…
With their wide range of larval hosts, many of which are quite abundant, Egira rubrica can often be a very common visitor…
The identity of these plants has puzzled me for many years. From photos I found Phacelia hastata and P. heterophylla seemed the most superficially…
I seem to get one of these moths almost every time I run lights in mixed forests, but I don’t…
Despite the fact that it is a non-native species, and quite invasive, it is hard for me to dislike anything…
Finding this moth was just a lucky break for me, as it didn’t come to UV lights, per se, though…
Before you start cursing Rubus ursinus (variously called Pacific blackberry, Pacific dewberry, trailing blackberry, California blackberry, California dewberry, California grapeleaf dewberry, and…
The first time I ever saw an Apantesis ornata (ornate tiger moth) was on a Father’s Day weekend camping trip to Big…