Pseudosphinx Tetrio

Remember this unidentified caterpillar digiscoped during my visit to Canopy Lodge in Panama? Well, it is unidentified no longer.

Caterpillar Conundrum

Making it appear even more menacing, as if its five inch length wasn’t sufficient, was a large, black horn on its tail that gained it the informal appellation of “the hornworm from Hell.”

The Bewildering Butterflies and Moths of Panama

Sandwiched among other useful guidebooks to the flora and fauna of the area was found a copy of The Swift Guide to the Butterflies of Mexico and Central America.

The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate

Calpurnia Tate is the child all naturalists wish they were as children: endlessly curious, possessing of boundless energy, and most important of all, beginning their explorations of the natural world at an age when the mind has not yet been

The Bewildering Butterflies and Moths of Panama

Sandwiched among other useful guidebooks to the flora and fauna of the area was found a copy of The Swift Guide to the Butterflies of Mexico and Central America.

Required Reading

Regardless of where your travels might take you in this world, it's always a good idea to read-up on your destination before you go. For travelling naturalists and wildlife photographers, such preliminary study is not just a good idea, its

The Importance of Proper Accessorizing

As luck would have it, my technique worked. What I did not know at the time was that there exists an accessory for the LX3 that could have very effectively solved my composing needs that night.

Out Standing in a Field

“Would it really happen?” I kept asking myself. “Will I know it if I see it?” They said it would not be particularly dramatic if it happens – our latitude is too low; it would only be a glow on

Standing at Attention for the Admiral

In my sparsely butterfly populated corner of Northwest Oregon, a fleeting glimpse of large black and white lepidopteran wings immediately brings one name to mind - but not always the right one.