I was packing for a trip to the southern Blue Mountains to (hopefully) photograph Garita Skipperlings for the first time, when I got the...

The Taoist Masters of old speak of the principle of Wu wei, or non-doing, as being central to their way of understanding how the world is...

As a second generation native Oregonian, I have always felt some kind of civic duty to photograph the Oregon Swallowtail, our state insect..

Isn't it curious how sometimes when we are looking for one thing, we often find something else that is equally satisfying?

My 2021 field season started quite a bit later than I'd planned, and sadly I had to skip a trip to the Illinois River in April in search...

It's 10 am on August 23, and I've just arrived at the bottom of the tramway that climbs 3,300 feet up to the top of Mount Howard, in the...

Andy Warren's monumental review of Oregon's butterflies (Butterflies of Oregon, Their Taxonomy, Distribution and Biology) not only has...

In American major league baseball, the group of players who have hit 600 or more career home runs is an elite and very small group. Just...

The Mountain Parnassian is a denizen of steep, high elevation meadows with rocky outcroppings that support its host plants in the genus...

Andy Warren describes the habitat of the Nevada Skipper (Hesperia nevada) as dry, windblown summits of peaks and ridges, usually above...

Back in 2004, I saw one Garita Skipperling (Oarisma garita) in what was then an unkempt lawn in front of an abandoned motel in Minam...

Just west of the town of Selma in Josephine County, Oregon is a rounded butte called Eight Dollar Mountain. Some say the name comes from...

According to California lepidopterist Ken Davenport, author of Butterflies of the Sierra Nevada, the Western Cloudywing is one of our...

When I packed up my Subaru and headed down to Jackson County to visit Kinney Creek this past week, I'd forgotten about the mining claims...

For Oregon lepidopterists, butterfliers and butterfly photographers, spring is the time to venture into stream and river canyons in...

That is the title of a 1973 book by E.F. Schumacher that was very influential for me when I was in my early 20's. It gave me the...

It isn't often that I get to write about actually finding and photographing an Oregon butterfly species that I haven't photographed...

The Illinois River valley in Josephine County may well have more species of white butterflies in early spring than any other part of...

Welcome back to the Butterflies of Oregon blog! Now that spring has arrived in the Willamette Valley, you will be seeing periodic...

Yesterday, I was at the central Oregon Coast, enjoying spectacular sunny, warm weather and great bird sightings. I went in hopes of...