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  • Monarch butterfly chrysalis (Danaus Plexippus). before emegance. (1 0f 11).
    Monarch_butterfly_emergence_Durm27_2.jpg
  • Emerging monarch butterfly (Danaus Plexippus). The butterly is pushing itself out of the chrysalis casing. (7 0f 11).
    Emerging_monarch_butterfly_DurM33_2.jpg
  • Emerging monarch butterfly (Danaus Plexippus). The butterly has just pushed itself out of the chrysalis casing. Fluid is being pumped from its abdomen into the wings. (10 0f 11).
    Monarch_butterfly_emergence_DurM36_2.jpg
  • Emerging monarch butterfly (Danaus Plexippus). The butterly has just pushed itself out of the chrysalis casing. Fluid has  pumped from its abdomen into the wingsto get them ready for flight. (11 0f 11).
    Monarch_butterfly_emergence_DurM37_2.jpg
  • Emerging monarch butterfly (Danaus Plexippus). The butterly has just pushed itself out of the chrysalis casing. (8 0f 11).
    Monarch_butterfly_emergence_DurM34_2.jpg
  • Emerging monarch butterfly (Danaus Plexippus). The butterly is pushing itself out of the chrysalis casing. (6 0f 11).
    Monarch_butterfly_emergence_DurM32_2.jpg
  • Emerging monarch butterfly (Danaus Plexippus). The butterly is pushing itself out of the chrysalis casing. (5 0f 11).
    Monarch_butterfly_emergence_DurM31_2.jpg
  • Emerging monarch butterfly (Danaus Plexippus). The butterly has just pushed itself out of the chrysalis casing. Fluid is being pumped from its abdomen into the wings. (9 0f 11).
    Monarch_butterfly_emergence_DurM35_2.jpg
  • A painted lady butterfly (Vanessa cardui) emerging from its chrysalis.
    butterfly_chrysalis_VanessaC7.jpg
  • A painted lady butterfly (Vanessa cardui) emerging from its chrysalis.
    butterfly_chrysalis_VanessaC5.jpg
  • A painted lady butterfly (Vanessa cardui) freshly emerged from its chrysalis.
    butterfly_chrysalis_VanessaC13.jpg
  • A painted lady butterfly (Vanessa cardui) emerging from its chrysalis.
    butterfly_chrysalis_VanessaC6.jpg
  • A painted lady butterfly (Vanessa cardui) emerging from its chrysalis.
    butterfly_chrysalis_VanessaC9.jpg
  • A painted lady butterfly (Vanessa cardui) emerging from its chrysalis.
    butterfly_chrysalis_VanessaC8.jpg
  • A painted lady butterfly (Vanessa cardui) emerging from its chrysalis.
    butterfly_chrysalis_VanessaC4.jpg
  • Mexican free-tailed bats (Tadarida brasiliensis) emerge from Bracken Cave at dusk.  Bracken Cave is currently estimated to have a colony of more than 20 million bats, making it the single largest concentration of mammals in the world. Bracken Cave is a owned and managed by Bat Conservation International, and access to the cave is restricted to protect the habitat of the bats residing therein.
    bracken_cave_92408TTb-133.jpg
  • Mexican free-tailed bats (Tadarida brasiliensis) emerge from Bracken Cave at dusk.  Bracken Cave is currently estimated to have a colony of more than 20 million bats, making it the single largest concentration of mammals in the world. Bracken Cave is a owned and managed by Bat Conservation International, and access to the cave is restricted to protect the habitat of the bats residing therein.
    bracken_cave_92408TTb-145.jpg
  • Mexican free-tailed bats (Tadarida brasiliensis) emerge from Bracken Cave at dusk.  Bracken Cave is currently estimated to have a colony of more than 20 million bats, making it the single largest concentration of mammals in the world. Bracken Cave is a owned and managed by Bat Conservation International, and access to the cave is restricted to protect the habitat of the bats residing therein.
    bracken_cave_92408TTb-137.jpg
  • Mexican free-tailed bats (Tadarida brasiliensis) emerge from Bracken Cave at dusk.  Bracken Cave is currently estimated to have a colony of more than 20 million bats, making it the single largest concentration of mammals in the world. Bracken Cave is a owned and managed by Bat Conservation International, and access to the cave is restricted to protect the habitat of the bats residing therein.
    bracken_cave_92408TTb-132.jpg
  • Mexican free-tailed bats (Tadarida brasiliensis) emerge from Bracken Cave at dusk.  Bracken Cave is currently estimated to have a colony of more than 20 million bats, making it the single largest concentration of mammals in the world. Bracken Cave is a owned and managed by Bat Conservation International, and access to the cave is restricted to protect the habitat of the bats residing therein. This image is stitched together from multiple exposures.
    bracken_cave_90908BrKc-132.jpg
  • Mexican free-tailed bats (Tadarida brasiliensis) emerge from Bracken Cave at dusk.  Bracken Cave is currently estimated to have a colony of more than 20 million bats, making it the single largest concentration of mammals in the world. Bracken Cave is a owned and managed by Bat Conservation International, and access to the cave is restricted to protect the habitat of the bats residing therein.
    bracken_cave_92408TTb-155.jpg
  • A rafinesque's big-eared bat (Corynorhinus rafinesquii) emerges from a small cave. Mammoth Cave National Park, Kentucky. © Michael Durham
    Corynorhinus_rafinesquii-72315rf-109.jpg
  • A rafinesque's big-eared bat (Corynorhinus rafinesquii) emerges from a small cave. Mammoth Cave National Park, Kentucky. © Michael Durham
    Corynorhinus_rafinesquii-72315rf2-11...jpg
  • A rafinesque's big-eared bat (Corynorhinus rafinesquii) emerges from a small cave. Mammoth Cave National Park, Kentucky. © Michael Durham
    Corynorhinus_rafinesquii-72315rf-103.jpg
  • A rafinesque's big-eared bat (Corynorhinus rafinesquii) emerges from a small cave. Mammoth Cave National Park, Kentucky. © Michael Durham
    Corynorhinus_rafinesquii-72315rf2-11...jpg
  • Monarch butterfly chrysalis (Danaus Plexippus). the butterfly wing can just be seen unfolding out of the chrysalis.
    Monarch_butterfly_emergence_DurM30_2.jpg
  • Monarch butterfly chrysalis (Danaus Plexippus). the new butterfly has just broken the skin of the chrysalis. (3 0f 11).
    Monarch_butterfly_emergence_DurM29_2.jpg
  • Monarch butterfly chrysalis (Danaus Plexippus). the chrysalis darkens just before emegance. (2 0f 11).
    Monarch_butterfly_emergence_DurM28_2.jpg
  • A painted lady butterfly (Vanessa cardui) chrysalis.
    butterfly_chrysalis_VanessaC2.jpg
  • A painted lady butterfly (Vanessa cardui) chrysalis.
    butterfly_chrysalis_VanessaC3.jpg
  • A waterlily (Castalia odorata) flower bud rising through tanic water. Okefenokee Swamp National Wildlife Refuge, Georgia.
    waterlily_emergence-MDurham96.jpg
  • Western pond turtle (Clemmys marmorata) emerging from its nest hole after hatching out of its egg. Columbia River Gorge, Washington USA. Temporarily captive/controlled conditions.
    pond_turtle_nest_Durm50_3.jpg
  • praying mantis nymphs (Tenodera sinesis) emerge from their egg case, or ootheca, in a garden in Portland, Oregon.
    mantis_ootheca_61805_05.jpg
  • A light brown or blonde American black bear (Ursus americanus) emerges from behind a log in the Rogue River National Forest, Oregon.
    black_bear-139.jpg
  • A belding ground squirrel pup nuzzles up to his mother on The Nature Conservancy's Zumwalt Prairie Preserve. The pups first emerged from their burrow the previous week. Called locally &quot;red diggers&quot;, they provide a food source for one of tha largest concentrations of breeding raptors in North America. <br />
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A belding ground squirrel pup nuzzles up to his mother on The Nature Conservancy's Zumwalt Prairie Preserve. The pups first emerged from their burrow the previous week. Called locally &quot;red diggers&quot;, they provide a food source for one of tha largest concentrations of breeding raptors in North America.
    belding_ground_squirrel-OR-MRD64-007.jpg
  • Rare allen's lappet-browed  bat (Idionycteris phyllotis) emerge from under loose bark on a dead ponderosa tree snag at dusk. Kaibab National Forest, Arizona. This is a digital composite of two different bats emerging from the same tree.
    bat_tree__71507ALBB-12.jpg
  • An endangered Indiana bat (Myotis sodalis) emerging from Wyandotte Cave in Indiana. The Indiana bat is listed as an endangered species by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Populations have been decimated by habitiat loss and and and an invasive fungal infection: white nose syndrome.
    Indiana_Bat-101416C4-118.jpg
  • An endangered Indiana bat (Myotis sodalis) emerging from Wyandotte Cave in Indiana. The Indiana bat is listed as an endangered species by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Populations have been decimated by habitiat loss and and and an invasive fungal infection: white nose syndrome.
    Indiana_Bat-101416C4-114.jpg
  • An endangered Indiana bat (Myotis sodalis) emerging from Wyandotte Cave in Indiana. The Indiana bat is listed as an endangered species by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Populations have been decimated by habitiat loss and and and an invasive fungal infection: white nose syndrome.
    Indiana_Bat-101416C3-108.jpg
  • An indiana bat (Myotis sodalis) flies in the vicinity of its artificial day roost shortly after emerging. Indianapolis, Indiana. These "bat boxes" were created for a research project managed by the Center for Bat Research at Indiana State University to mitigate for lost habitat with this highly endangered species.
    Indiana_bat-9116BBX-278.jpg
  • An endangered Indiana bat (Myotis sodalis) emerging from Wyandotte Cave in Indiana. The Indiana bat is listed as an endangered species by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Populations have been decimated by habitiat loss and and and an invasive fungal infection: white nose syndrome.
    Myotis_sodalis-9116Ind-125.jpg
  • Spring leaves emerge on the banks of the Metolius River. Deschutes National Forest, Oregon.
    River_Metolius-7482.jpg
  • A Virginia opossum (Didelphis virginiana) emerging from a den at night in Timucuan Ecologic and Historical Preserve, Florida.
    51517NC-110.jpg
  • A Western Spotted Skunk (Spilogale gracilis) emerges from a burrow share by Mountain Beaver. Coastal forest in Central Oregon.
    Spotted_Skunk_101714-184.jpg
  • Norway rat(s) (Rattus Norvegicus) emerging from a rat hole in a suburban yard at night. Portland, Oregon. © Michael Durham / www.DurmPhoto.com
    urban_rat-71412RR-184.jpg
  • The edible root of a camas plant (Camassia quamash) after being cooked in an earthen oven, on Weippe Prairie, Idaho. On September 20, 1805 the first members of Lewis and Clark's Corps of Discovery, including Clark himself, emerged starving and weak onto the Weippe Prairie. There they encountered the Nez Perce, who were attracted to the area by the abundant hunting, as well as the fields of camas flowers, whose roots were a staple of their diet.
    camas_root_52711CM2s-129.jpg
  • An endangered Indiana bat (Myotis sodalis) emerging from Wyandotte Cave in Indiana. The Indiana bat is listed as an endangered species by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Populations have been decimated by habitiat loss and and and an invasive fungal infection: white nose syndrome.
    Indiana_Bat-101416C4-108.jpg
  • An endangered Indiana bat (Myotis sodalis) emerging from Wyandotte Cave in Indiana. The Indiana bat is listed as an endangered species by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Populations have been decimated by habitiat loss and and and an invasive fungal infection: white nose syndrome.
    Indiana_Bat-101416C3-105.jpg
  • An endangered Indiana bat (Myotis sodalis) emerging from Wyandotte Cave in Indiana. The Indiana bat is listed as an endangered species by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Populations have been decimated by habitiat loss and and and an invasive fungal infection: white nose syndrome.
    Indiana_Bat-101416C3-103-Edit.jpg
  • An endangered Indiana bat (Myotis sodalis) emerging from Wyandotte Cave in Indiana. The Indiana bat is listed as an endangered species by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Populations have been decimated by habitiat loss and and and an invasive fungal infection: white nose syndrome.
    Indiana_Bat-101416C3-101.jpg
  • An indiana bat (Myotis sodalis) flies in the vicinity of its artificial day roost shortly after emerging. Indianapolis, Indiana. These "bat boxes" were created for a research project managed by the Center for Bat Research at Indiana State University to mitigate for lost habitat with this highly endangered species.
    Indiana_bat-9116BBX-447.jpg
  • An indiana bat (Myotis sodalis) flies in the vicinity of its artificial day roost shortly after emerging. Indianapolis, Indiana. These "bat boxes" were created for a research project managed by the Center for Bat Research at Indiana State University to mitigate for lost habitat with this highly endangered species.
    Indiana_bat-9116BBX-352.jpg
  • An indiana bat (Myotis sodalis) emerging from an artificial day roost. Indianapolis, Indiana. These "bat boxes" were created for a research project managed by the Center for Bat Research at Indiana State University to mitigate for lost habitat with this highly endangered species.
    Indiana_bat-9116BBX-255.jpg
  • An indiana bat (Myotis sodalis) flies in the vicinity of its artificial day roost shortly after emerging. Indianapolis, Indiana. These "bat boxes" were created for a research project managed by the Center for Bat Research at Indiana State University to mitigate for lost habitat with this highly endangered species.
    Indiana_bat-9116BBX-216.jpg
  • An indiana bat (Myotis sodalis) flies in the vicinity of its artificial day roost shortly after emerging. Indianapolis, Indiana. These "bat boxes" were created for a research project managed by the Center for Bat Research at Indiana State University to mitigate for lost habitat with this highly endangered species.
    Indiana_bat-9116BBX-213.jpg
  • An indiana bat (Myotis sodalis) flies in the vicinity of its artificial day roost shortly after emerging. Indianapolis, Indiana. These "bat boxes" were created for a research project managed by the Center for Bat Research at Indiana State University to mitigate for lost habitat with this highly endangered species.
    Indiana_bat-9116BBX-211.jpg
  • An indiana bat (Myotis sodalis) flies in the vicinity of its artificial day roost shortly after emerging. Indianapolis, Indiana. These "bat boxes" were created for a research project managed by the Center for Bat Research at Indiana State University to mitigate for lost habitat with this highly endangered species.
    9116BBX-210.jpg
  • Dgital composite of indiana bats (Myotis sodalis) flying in the vicinity and emerging from an artificial day roost - Indianapolis, Indiana. These "bat boxes" were created for a research project managed by the Center for Bat Research at Indiana State University to mitigate for lost habitat with this highly endangered species.
    9116BBX-210-Edit.jpg
  • A big brown bat (Eptesicus fuscus) emerging from Wyandotte Cave, Indiana.
    Indiana_bat-9116Ind-137.jpg
  • An endangered Indiana bat (Myotis sodalis) emerging from Wyandotte Cave in Indiana. The Indiana bat is listed as an endangered species by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Populations have been decimated by habitiat loss and and and an invasive fungal infection: white nose syndrome.
    Indiana_bat-9116Wy-176-Edit.jpg
  • An endangered Indiana bat (Myotis sodalis) emerging from Wyandotte Cave in Indiana. The Indiana bat is listed as an endangered species by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Populations have been decimated by habitiat loss and and and an invasive fungal infection: white nose syndrome.
    Indiana_bat-9116Wyn-334.jpg
  • A tricolored bat (Perimyotis subflavus) emerging from Wyandotte Cave, Indiana.
    tricolored_bat-9116Wy-172.jpg
  • An endangered Indiana bat (Myotis sodalis) emerging from Wyandotte Cave in Indiana. The Indiana bat is listed as an endangered species by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Populations have been decimated by habitiat loss and and and an invasive fungal infection: white nose syndrome.
    Indiana_bat-9116Wyn-318.jpg
  • An endangered Indiana bat (Myotis sodalis) emerging from Wyandotte Cave in Indiana. The Indiana bat is listed as an endangered species by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Populations have been decimated by habitiat loss and and and an invasive fungal infection: white nose syndrome.
    Indiana_bat-9116Wyn-316.jpg
  • A big brown bat (Eptesicus fuscus) emerging from Wyandotte Cave, Indiana.
    Big_Brown_bat-9116Wyn-314.jpg
  • An endangered Indiana bat (Myotis sodalis) emerging from Wyandotte Cave in Indiana. The Indiana bat is listed as an endangered species by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Populations have been decimated by habitiat loss and and and an invasive fungal infection: white nose syndrome.
    9116Wyn-310.jpg
  • A big brown bat (Eptesicus fuscus) emerging from Wyandotte Cave, Indiana.
    Big_Brown_bat-9116Wyn-281.jpg
  • A big brown bat (Eptesicus fuscus) emerging from Wyandotte Cave, Indiana.
    Big_Brown_bat-9116Wy-158.jpg
  • A big brown bat (Eptesicus fuscus) emerging from Wyandotte Cave, Indiana.
    Big_Brown_bat-9116Wyn-274.jpg
  • An endangered Indiana bat (Myotis sodalis) emerging from Wyandotte Cave in Indiana. The Indiana bat is listed as an endangered species by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Populations have been decimated by habitiat loss and and and an invasive fungal infection: white nose syndrome.
    Myotis_sodalis-9116Wy-157.jpg
  • An endangered Indiana bat (Myotis sodalis) emerging from Wyandotte Cave in Indiana. The Indiana bat is listed as an endangered species by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Populations have been decimated by habitiat loss and and and an invasive fungal infection: white nose syndrome.
    Myotis_sodalis-9116Wyn-272.jpg
  • A tricolored bat (Perimyotis subflavus) emerging from Wyandotte Cave, Indiana.
    tricolored_bat-9116Wyn-245.jpg
  • An endangered Indiana bat (Myotis sodalis) emerging from Wyandotte Cave in Indiana. The Indiana bat is listed as an endangered species by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Populations have been decimated by habitiat loss and and and an invasive fungal infection: white nose syndrome.
    Myotis_sodalis-9116Wyn-215.jpg
  • An endangered Indiana bat (Myotis sodalis) emerging from Wyandotte Cave in Indiana. The Indiana bat is listed as an endangered species by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Populations have been decimated by habitiat loss and and and an invasive fungal infection: white nose syndrome.
    Myotis_sodalis-9116Ind-133.jpg
  • An endangered Indiana bat (Myotis sodalis) emerging from Wyandotte Cave in Indiana. The Indiana bat is listed as an endangered species by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Populations have been decimated by habitiat loss and and and an invasive fungal infection: white nose syndrome.
    Myotis_sodalis-9116Wyn-189.jpg
  • A Virginia big-eared bat (Corynorhinus townsendii virginianus) emerging from a cave in North Carolina. This is an endangered subspecies of the Townsend's big-eared bat and is found in Virginia, Kentucky and North Carolina.
    Virginia_big-eared_bat-82916gf2-155.jpg
  • A Virginia big-eared bat (Corynorhinus townsendii virginianus) emerging from a cave in North Carolina. This is an endangered subspecies of the Townsend's big-eared bat and is found in Virginia, Kentucky and North Carolina.
    Virginia_big-eared_bat-82916gf2-154.jpg
  • A Virginia big-eared bat (Corynorhinus townsendii virginianus) emerging from a cave in North Carolina. This is an endangered subspecies of the Townsend's big-eared bat and is found in Virginia, Kentucky and North Carolina.
    Virginia_big-eared_bat-82916gf3-128.jpg
  • A Virginia big-eared bat (Corynorhinus townsendii virginianus) emerging from a cave in North Carolina. This is an endangered subspecies of the Townsend's big-eared bat and is found in Virginia, Kentucky and North Carolina.
    Virginia_big-eared_bat-82916gf3-127.jpg
  • A Virginia big-eared bat (Corynorhinus townsendii virginianus) emerging from a cave in North Carolina. This is an endangered subspecies of the Townsend's big-eared bat and is found in Virginia, Kentucky and North Carolina.
    Virginia_big-eared_bat-82916gf2-131.jpg
  • A Virginia big-eared bat (Corynorhinus townsendii virginianus) emerging from a cave in North Carolina. This is an endangered subspecies of the Townsend's big-eared bat and is found in Virginia, Kentucky and North Carolina.
    Virginia_big-eared_bat-82916gf2-122.jpg
  • A Virginia big-eared bat (Corynorhinus townsendii virginianus) emerging from a cave in North Carolina. This is an endangered subspecies of the Townsend's big-eared bat and is found in Virginia, Kentucky and North Carolina.
    Virginia_big-eared_bat-82916gf2-114.jpg
  • A Virginia big-eared bat (Corynorhinus townsendii virginianus) emerging from a cave in North Carolina. This is an endangered subspecies of the Townsend's big-eared bat and is found in Virginia, Kentucky and North Carolina. Note the spider at the base of the fern.
    Virginia_big-eared_bat-82916gf2-108.jpg
  • A Virginia big-eared bat (Corynorhinus townsendii virginianus) emerging from a cave in North Carolina. This is an endangered subspecies of the Townsend's big-eared bat and is found in Virginia, Kentucky and North Carolina.
    Virginia_big-eared_bat-82916gf2-104.jpg
  • A Virginia big-eared bat (Corynorhinus townsendii virginianus) emerging from a cave in North Carolina. This is an endangered subspecies of the Townsend's big-eared bat and is found in Virginia, Kentucky and North Carolina.
    Virginia_big-eared_bat-82916gf3-103.jpg
  • A gopher tortoise (Gopherus polyphemus) emerging from its burrow in Timucuan Ecological and Historic Preserve, Florida.
    51715gt-110.jpg
  • A gopher tortoise (Gopherus polyphemus) emerging from its burrow in Timucuan Ecological and Historic Preserve, Florida.
    51715gt-107-Edit.jpg
  • Western Spotted Skunk (Spilogale gracilis) emerging from a burrow at night in costal forest, Oregon.
    Spotted_Skunk__MG_8689.jpg
  • A mountain beaver (Aplodontia rufa) emerges from its burrow in the coastal forest of Oregon.
    Aplodontia_rufa-6546.jpg
  • Cinnabar moth (Tyria jacobaeae) on Tansy ragwort (Senecio jacobaea) at Cascade Head Preserve on the Oregon Coast. The cinnabar moth was first introduced into Oregon in 1960 to contraol non-native, invasive, tansy ragwort.  Subsequent research has shown that the cinnabar moth can reduce ragwort populations by 50-75% on sites favorable for their survivorship (Isaacson and Ehrensing 1977).  Adult cinnabar moths begin to emerge in late spring/early summer.  Mating commences quickly, and females lay their eggs on the underside of ragwort leaves.  Larva hatch in about two weeks and begin feeding on ragwort foliage.  By the third instar, larvae have migrated to the top of the plant to feed on the buds and flowers. With a good population of larvae, plants are stripped of flowers, buds and leaves.
    cinnabar_moth-81912CmSt2.jpg
  • A cinnabar moth (Tyria jacobaeae) in flight at the Cascade Head Preserve on the Oregon Coast. The cinnabar moth was first introduced into Oregon in 1960 to control noxious ragwort weeds.  Subsequent research has shown that the cinnabar moth can reduce ragwort populations by 50 - 75% on sites favorable for their survivorship. Adult cinnabar moths begin to emerge in late spring/early summer.  Mating commences quickly, and females lay their eggs on the underside of ragwort leaves.  Larvae hatch in about two weeks and begin feeding on ragwort foliage.  By the third instar, larvae have migrated to the top of the plant to feed on the buds and flowers. With a good population of larvae, plants are stripped of flowers, buds and leaves.
    cinnabar_moth-IMG_4801.jpg
  • Cinnabar moth (Tyria jacobaeae) caterpillar on Tansy ragwort (Senecio jacobaea) at Cascade Head Preserve on the Oregon Coast. The cinnabar moth was first introduced into Oregon in 1960 to contraol non-native, invasive, tansy ragwort.  Subsequent research has shown that the cinnabar moth can reduce ragwort populations by 50-75% on sites favorable for their survivorship (Isaacson and Ehrensing 1977).  Adult cinnabar moths begin to emerge in late spring/early summer.  Mating commences quickly, and females lay their eggs on the underside of ragwort leaves.  Larva hatch in about two weeks and begin feeding on ragwort foliage.  By the third instar, larvae have migrated to the top of the plant to feed on the buds and flowers. With a good population of larvae, plants are stripped of flowers, buds and leaves.
    cinnabar_moth-81812CM-127.jpg
  • Cinnabar moth (Tyria jacobaeae) caterpillar on Tansy ragwort (Senecio jacobaea) at Cascade Head Preserve on the Oregon Coast. The cinnabar moth was first introduced into Oregon in 1960 to contraol non-native, invasive, tansy ragwort.  Subsequent research has shown that the cinnabar moth can reduce ragwort populations by 50-75% on sites favorable for their survivorship (Isaacson and Ehrensing 1977).  Adult cinnabar moths begin to emerge in late spring/early summer.  Mating commences quickly, and females lay their eggs on the underside of ragwort leaves.  Larva hatch in about two weeks and begin feeding on ragwort foliage.  By the third instar, larvae have migrated to the top of the plant to feed on the buds and flowers. With a good population of larvae, plants are stripped of flowers, buds and leaves.
    cinnabar_moth-81812CM-121.jpg
  • Norway rat(s) (Rattus Norvegicus) emerging from a rat hole in a suburban yard at night. Portland, Oregon. © Michael Durham / www.DurmPhoto.com
    urban_rat-71412RR2-221.jpg
  • Norway rat(s) (Rattus Norvegicus) emerging from a rat hole in a suburban yard at night. Portland, Oregon. © Michael Durham / www.DurmPhoto.com
    urban_rat-71412RR-233.jpg
  • Norway rat(s) (Rattus Norvegicus) emerging from a rat hole in a suburban yard at night. Portland, Oregon. © Michael Durham / www.DurmPhoto.com
    urban_rat-71412RR-206.jpg
  • Norway rat(s) (Rattus Norvegicus) emerging from a rat hole in a suburban yard at night. Portland, Oregon. © Michael Durham / www.DurmPhoto.com
    urban_rat-71412RR-188.jpg
  • Norway rat(s) (Rattus Norvegicus) emerging from a rat hole in a suburban yard at night. Portland, Oregon. © Michael Durham / www.DurmPhoto.com
    urban_rat-71412RR2-173.jpg
  • Norway rat(s) (Rattus Norvegicus) emerging from a rat hole in a suburban yard at night. Portland, Oregon. © Michael Durham / www.DurmPhoto.com
    urban_rat-71412RR-182.jpg
  • A camas flower(Camassia quamash) and yellow western buttercup (Ranunculus occidental) blooming on Weippe Praire, Idaho. The bulbs of these plants are edible and are a valuable food source for the Nez Perce tribe. On September 20, 1805 the first members of Lewis and Clark's Corps of Discovery, including Clark himself, emerged starving and weak onto the Weippe Prairie. There they encountered the Nez Perce, who were attracted to the area by the abundant hunting, as well as the fields of camas flowers, whose roots were a staple of their diet.
    Camassia_quamash_53011-338.jpg
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