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Cisseps fulvicollis (Yellow-collared Scape Moth)

August 4, 2022 Dan Nelson 1 Comment

Due to a variety of reasons, mostly having to do with general laziness and a desire to spend the hours…

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Posted in: Animals, Arthropoda, Cisseps, Erebidae, Insecta, Lepidoptera (Moths and Butterflies), Plants, Species Profiles Filed under: Cisseps fulvicollis, Yellow-collared Scape Moth

Isodontia elegans (Elegant Grass Carrying Wasp)

August 2, 2022 Dan Nelson 11 Comments

I want to thank my friend Craig Sondergaard for this profile. He still works medical transportation, the same job I…

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Posted in: Animals, Arthropoda, Hymenoptera (Wasps, Ants, Bees), Insecta, Plants, Species Profiles, Sphecidae Filed under: Elegant Grass Carrying Wasp, Isodontia elegans

Equisetum hyemale

July 29, 2022 Dan Nelson 8 Comments

I don’t know the horsetails well, except to say ‘that’s a horsetail’. In fact, when I took these photos it…

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Posted in: Equisetaceae, Equisetales, Equisetum, Plants, Polypodiophyta, Polypodiopsida, Species Profiles, Tracheophytes Filed under: Common scouring rush, Equisetum hyemale, Rough Horsetail, Scouringrush

Cicindela oregona (Western Tiger Beetles)

July 25, 2022 Dan Nelson 2 Comments

On one of my recent outings with my nbo we were up on the NF Toutle River. Morgan had stepped…

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Posted in: Animals, Arthropoda, Cicindela, Cicindelidae, Coleoptera (Beetles), Insecta, Plants, Species Profiles Filed under: Cicindela oregona, Western Tiger Beetle

Lupinus lepidus var. lobbii

July 21, 2022 Dan Nelson 6 Comments

This is my favorite lupine, mostly because it is one of the two lupines that I can identify on sight…

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Posted in: Angiosperms (Flowering Plants), Eudicots, Fabaceae (Legumes), Fabales, Lupinus, Plants, Species Profiles Filed under: Dwarf Lupine, Lupinus lepidus var. lobbii

Ectopsocus californicus

July 19, 2022 Dan Nelson 4 Comments

These are barklice, and it is a new order (Psocodea- barklice, booklice, and parasitic lice) for these profiles. And no,…

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Posted in: Animals, Arthropoda, Ectopsocidae, Ectopsocus, Insecta, Plants, Psocodea, Species Profiles Filed under: Ectopsocus californicus

Juncus effusus ssp. effusus

July 17, 2022 Dan Nelson 6 Comments

So, I got lucky with my first attempt at identifying a rush, because Juncus effusus (also known as pasture rush, soft rush,…

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Posted in: Angiosperms (Flowering Plants), Juncaceae, Juncus, Monocots, Plants, Poales, Species Profiles

Cortodera longicornis

July 13, 2022 Dan Nelson 2 Comments

There are two types of profiles that take awhile to write. Species where there is an abundance of information about…

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Posted in: Animals, Arthropoda, Cerambycidae (Longhorn Beetles), Coleoptera (Beetles), Cortodera, Insecta, Plants, Species Profiles

Moehringia macrophylla (Big-leaf Sandwort)

July 11, 2022 Dan Nelson Leave a comment

I first noticed this plant while wandering around with a headlamp waiting for bugs to show up at my lights…

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Posted in: Angiosperms (Flowering Plants), Caryophyllaceae, Caryophyllales, Eudicots, Moehringia, Plants, Species Profiles Filed under: Big-leaf Sandwort, Moehringia macrophylla

Papilio rutulus (Western Tiger Swallowtails)

July 9, 2022 Dan Nelson 2 Comments

The majority of the butterflies in this post were seen on the summer solstice, near the Columbia River, outside Kalama,…

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Posted in: Animals, Arthropoda, Insecta, Lepidoptera (Moths and Butterflies), Papilio, Papilionidae, Plants, Species Profiles Filed under: Papilio rutulus, Western Tiger Swallowtails

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