Afghan Giant Armored Sow Bug

If you like pill bugs, sow bugs, etc – especially if you’ve been to Afghanistan – you’ll like the video I posted:

GIANT ARMORED SOW BUG

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Our Beautiful Snakes

You have to admit it – the Northwest has the most beautiful garter snakes in the country.

HOOAH

Jack

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Rough Skinned Newt

I found this female wandering about on my driveway today so I thought I’d share a few pictures. Thankfully, I found her before our cats did. Female newts have a “distinctive cone shaped vent” when they are breeding according to the Peterson Field Guide to Western Reptiles and Amphibians. This is quite evident […]

Harbor Seal Observations

Pacific Harbor Seal – Poca vitulina richardsi

Size: Greater than 6 feet; up to 375 lb

Range: Coastal areas of the north Pacific region

Habitat: Mainly near shorelines; adults will stray further and individual seals even foray into inland rivers and even lakes

Food: Fish, shellfish, crustaceans

The Most Common Marine Mammal in […]

What’s the Difference?

Reindeer or Caribou? Dolphin or Whale? What’s the Difference?

Fall is here and that means Christmas is not far behind. Soon we’ll be awash in symbols and images of the season. In the world of advertising few animals represent the holidays more completely than reindeer. But Santa’s antlered ambassadors look an awful lot like the […]

GIANT WATER BUGS AND WATER SCORPIONS – the Big and Tall of Invertebrate Predators

If they weren’t such ferocious predators you might compare these guys to Laurel and Hardy. Common freshwater insects of ponds, marshes, and lakes these guys represent the big and tall end of invertebrate predators. But don’t look for laughs. Neither has a particularly comical side to its personality.

Nicknamed “Toe Biter” the Giant Water Bug […]

TURTLE TIME IN THE NORTHWEST

You’d think with all the water we have in our Northwest clime we’d see a lot more representatives of Testudinae here. Unfortunately this is not the case. Our abundance of H20 comes at a cost, well known to us natives, in sunshine. Turtles may love water, but they adore sunlight almost as much, a quality […]

No More Subscribers

Due to the large number of subscriber fleas I have shut down unrestricted subscription to this website. If you like to subscribe, and I sincerely wish you would, kindly refer to the Subscriber/Comment Policy page.

HOOAH

Jack

Afghan People Presentation

If you happen to be in the Seattle/Tacoma area on 31 August I’ll be giving a presentation at the Federal Way Library on the people of Afghanistan that Monday night beginning at 6:30 pm. Details are in the poster found at the link below. I do a couple of these prsentations from my time over […]

Subscriber Fleas

Perhaps it is better to describe these people as vermin instead of just plan fleas. For some reason they subscribe to my website numerous times under different usernames and slightly modified email accounts. I have no idea what the purpose of this foolishness is, so just as I would get rid of any annoying pest […]