Pacific Slope Blog

Skipper feeding on Zinnia  Since being back in the Pacific Northwest, I've been working in school integrated pest management.  N...

You may have seen a collection of amazing insect photographs recently on flicker, all of them taken by zoologist Dr. Arthur Anker from Kyrgy...

Today I found a larva in my banana. My first reaction was not unlike most any other's: ew. But the entomologist in me quickly took ove...

It's easy to loose yourself in graduate school, especially when you're three quarters done but feels like an eternity yet before you...

Ugh, graduate school. It's killing me. No one said it would be this difficult....then again, most of them didn't have such unusual...

Cascoplecia insolitis , a never-before-seen fly with long dangling legs and an unusual horn on its head sporting three eyes is being dubbed ...

This may perhaps be the most exciting event in my year to date: I found it, Uroctonus mordax ! This is the most common Pacific Northwest sc...

No Pacific NW scorpions were found while at the cabin at Shotpouch Creek last weekend. The habitat just wasn't there for U. mordax , wh...

Uroctonus mordax is a species of scorpion that occurs in the Pacific Northwest. Now that I am living back up here as a converted lover of ...

You know that saying "April showers bring May flowers"? It is usually no truer than in the Pacific Northwest, except that this ye...

Somewhat like me regarding this blog, my research subjects are also pulling a disappearing act... I've spent this week -- "spring b...

"Cheese n rice, you are a spectacularly majestic bird!" These are the words that escape me each time I view this: The Varied Thrus...