They say this plant blooms from June through September, but I always associate it with the month of August. It…
Back in July when I made a trip to Mt. St. Helens National Monument in Skamania County, Washington, I spotted…
So, I’ll just be upfront and admit that this is a revision of a profile I did when I first…
Because these small skimmers (family Libellulidae) often fly together, and look similar, I am posting linked, back to back profiles…
I finally found a Flame Skimmer! I must admit that when I first started looking for them ten years ago…
These beautiful, but non native, pond lilies in the family Nymphaeaceae (which are oddly neither a monocot nor a eudicot,…
There is a lot to say about these large members of the weasel family (Mustelidae), but first I’d like to…
I almost missed this plant on the trip to McBride Lake. I was apparently tunnel visioned when I passed it…
This was undoubtedly the find of the day on the trip to the Mt. St. Helens area that I talk…
Backswimmers (family Notonectidae in the order Hemiptera) are very cool aquatic true bugs! For one thing they, as the name…