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,…
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…
This is yet another moth for which I can find almost no definitive information. It is a handsome and subtly…
I may have mentioned before that I tend to avoid trying to identify most micromoths, because I don’t have the…
After 9 nights of mothing I have shaken off some (but definitely not all) of the rust on my moth…
There is just something particularly interesting about the patterning of the darts in general, something clean, geometrical, and elegant about…