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Golden Buprestid Cypriacis aurulenta on the fence along the south side of Poplar St. just west of 162nd Ave. in Vancouver, WA, 18 June 2020. https://bugguide.net/node/view/74029

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So excited to finally get some shots of a female Scudderia furcata, the Fork-Tailed Bush Katydid!

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Big Yellow May Hexagenia limbata, the largest mayfly found in the Pacific Northwest. Seen at Round Lake just before the dam spillway, 30 August 2019.

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The Lesser Waterboatman Corixa punctata at Barview Jetty on the Oregon coast, 27 August 2019. These guys are tricky--note the third pair of legs folded and modified into "oars" with "paddles," while the second leg pair trails behind. The first pair of legs is way forward on the prothorax and smushed up against the inner concave surface of the head mask, giving the impression of labial palps.

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California spiny lobster maxilliped and uropod details, plus abdominal armor. Refugio State Beach, 31 December 2018.

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Kelp crab carapace at Point Lobos, 30 December 2018.

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Some of the most beautiful places I visited in 2017.

TOP:  Palm Canyon at Indian Canyons in Palm Springs, CA, 3 January MIDDLE:  Joshua Tree National Park, 2 January BOTTOM:  Cape Kiwanda at Pacific City, OR, 30 August

For more photos from these and other locations, please check out my Facebook travelogue page: https://www.facebook.com/tapirblue/

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Spectacular caterpillars crawling along the railings of the Broadway St. bridge over the Necanicum River in Seaside, 29 August 2017.

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Black oystercatchers Haematopus bachmani at the south end of Cannon Beach, 28 August 2017.

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Widdle hermit crab at Barview Jetty in Garibaldi, OR, 30 August 2017.

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Another adorable little Pachygrapsus crassipes at Barview Jetty in Garibaldi OR, 30 August 2017. I saw tons of these guys down there, but (understandably) they’d scramble for shelter and wedge themselves into crevices the moment I blundered across them.

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Profile view of my friend from Tolovana. I found this little guy/gal on an arid stretch of beach far from its natural (tidepool) habitat; I have no idea how it got there. S/he was so desperate for shelter that when I crouched down to take photos it scurried into the shadow created by my body and wedged him/herself into the cool, soggy pleats of my pants leg, which was both endearing and heartbreaking. I snatched it up and deposited it in one of my water shoes to keep it moist until I could relocate it to an actual rock pool, to which it returned with obvious relief.

Lined (or striped) shore crab Pachygrapsus crassipes at the far south end of Cannon Beach, OR, 28 August 2017.

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Fierce little Lined Shore Crab Pachygrapsus crassipes at the far south end of Cannon Beach, 28 August 2017.

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“Oregon pill bug” Gnorimosphaeroma oregonensis, an intertidal isopod:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnorimosphaeroma_oregonensis

Hug Point, 27 August 2017.

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Aggregating anemones (Anthopleura elegantissima) at Hug Point, 27 August 2017.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aggregating_anemone

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Female katydid nymph cleaning her antennae, feet, and ovipositor. TOP from 22 August 2017, all the rest from 21 August.

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Bugs at Hockinson Meadows Community Park, 18 August 2017: a dead but beautifully intact assassin bug, robber fly with prey, and the tiniest cuckoo wasp I’ve ever seen. Not very exciting, I know, but it’s been a slow summer--I’ve gotta take what I can get.  : p