Tangled Web

Perhaps this quote from the Swiss naturalist Louis Agassiz summarizes the following pages and images best:

"I spent the summer traveling; I got halfway across my back yard."

Saturday, June 19, 2010

Scorpionfly (Panorpa sp.)

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Despite their fearsome looking mouth parts and the terminal appendages on the male these small scavengers are harmless, feeding on dead or d...
Friday, June 18, 2010

Slaty Skimmer (Libellula incesta)

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Libellula incesta doesn't seem to be as common in this area as its other skimmer relatives. I spotted only a few last year and haven...
Thursday, June 17, 2010

A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing

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What looks like an innocuous bumblebee ... ... isn't a bee at all. This "bumblebee" has only one pair of wings, and upon clos...
Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Eyed Paectes Moth (Paectes oculatrix)

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Despite the interesting pattern on this little moth's wings I didn't recognise the species and had to do some digging in my Peterson...

Lancet Clubtail (Gomphus exilis)

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It looks like this male clubtail had a narrow escape. Dorsal detail of the terminal abdominal segments. The dragonfly's overall length ...
Tuesday, June 15, 2010

The Amberwing Chronicles 2010

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Evidently one pair of these little dragonflies survived predators, bad weather, getting hit by drivers not watching where they're going,...
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