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Over the past few weeks I’ve seen three nymph stages of the Western Conifer Seed Bug (Leptoglossus occidentalis), or WCSB. These colorful, strutting youngsters become handsome adults and they have an interesting life story.

As I look at a leaf with its veins fanning out across its undersurface, I feel like I’m flying over a landscape.

In the world of butterflies and moths, caterpillars look nothing like their adult counterparts.

Pocket gophers are fossorial rodents named for their fur-lined, external cheek pouches. A fossorial animal is one adapted to digging and lives primarily, but not solely, underground.

There’s an attractive, mid-sized black wasp out and about this time of year that has a unique home-making habit.