Watching Hunt’s Bumble Bee (Bombus huntii) on Caragana in the Springtime
Watching Hunt's Bumble Bees on Caragana blossoms in the Southwestern Colorado Springtime.
A Good Life
Miscellaneous Wanderings and Maunderings
A Good Life
Miscellaneous Wanderings and Maunderings
Critters
Watching Carrot Wasps in the Garden
Watching Carrot Wasps (Gasteruption sp.) in Southwestern Colorado. Do I know how to live or what?
Watching a Spider Wasp Hunting in Southwestern Colorado
Photos and text from an afternoon spent watching a Pompilid Spider Wasp catching a Spider in Southwestern Colorado.
Picture-winged Flies (Stictomyia longicornis) on Prickly Pear Cactus in Arizona
A mystery (finally!) solved - watching Stictomyia Picture-winged Flies on Prickly Pear Cactus
“Cotton Balls” on Fourwinged Saltbush – Galls formed by Cecidomyid Midges
Photographing Midge-induced cotton-ball galls on Fourwinged Saltbush in Southwestern Colorado.
“Raven Fledge Day” – Possibly the Best Holiday?
A proposed new Holiday, inspired by watching fledgling Ravens.
Watching Tarantula Hawks on Desert Milkweed in Tucson, Arizona
A meditation on watching and photographing Tarantula Hawks in Arizona.
An Encounter with a Rattlesnake and a Gopher Snake in Southwestern Colorado
A few days ago, my wife and I went for a short walk through the Sagebrush desert of Southwestern Colorado. She was riding Leo, her BLM Mustang. I was walking with our faithful hound Jack on a leash. The weeds…
White-lined Sphinx Moth (Hyles lineata) feeding at Penstemon Flowers
The penstemons next to our house here in Southwestern Colorado have been blooming for the last couple of weeks, and they are attracting loads of pollinators. I’ve been spending a lot of time photographing the different types of wasps and…
Foxes Playing
Laurie and I were watching television and eating dinner last night when our dog, Jack, came into the living room. He stared at me, then stared out the window, then stared back at me. He seemed to be saying “Hey.…