So, this was a very cool bit of serendipity. As I described in the blog Mt. Adams, I went mothing…
This was one of the three large Noctuids I found at the bug zapper on the 3rd Night of Moth Week.…
This is one of the beetles that visited my lights during the 3rd Night of Moth Week . Although it was nondescript,…
The first time I found one of these Tragosoma beetles was last September while running lights at Lost Creek, up in the…
I was very surprised to encounter this small stand of quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides) on the south flank of Mt.…
This is one of the beetles I mentioned finding in 3rd Night of Moth Week. I’ve probably seen Centrodera spurca before, most notably…
I’m not really much of a forager, and I can’t say I’ve ever tried the fruit of Rubus leucodermis (known as blackcaps,…
Since I did not kill, skin, and examine the skull and teeth of any of the little chipmunks I saw…
I got really lucky identifying these beautiful members of the family Asteraceae ( which carry the common names rabbitbrush goldenweed,…
These tiger moths used to drive me crazy (I know- short trip) when I first got into mothing, because they would…