Thrips is a collection of images of these amazing insects. Most of the photos were taken in the alpine at about the 2,500 ft level on September 24 in Juneau, Alaska. In this area they were very abundant inside the flowers of Broad-petaled Gentian. Apparently these...
Seining for Flounder is a video of Carolyn Bergstrom from the University of Alaska, Southeast and her students doing a ‘Study of body condition of estuarine flounders’. For more information about this study and others look...
Gentians in the Alpine is a short video showing the different species I have seen along the Mt. Robert’s trail in Juneau, Alaska. I find these flowers and plants quite fascinating. When it is raining, or cool and cloudy they often stay completely closed and only...
The Alder Woolly Sawfly is an invasive species that eats the leaves of alder. It is becoming quite common in certain areas of the Juneau area this year 2019. To learn more about these sawflies look at /sites/default/files/ja_2010_kruse_001.pdf...
A Sac Spider Guards her Eggs is a video of a spider with her eggs in a rolled up alder leaf in Juneau, Alaska. Joey Slowik identified it as belonging to the genus Clubiona one of the sac spiders. I was able to keep them in a closed container until the young spiders...
Insects on Elderberry Plants shows some of the insects I have seen in Juneau coming to the flowers and leaves. These photos were taken in 2019. I expected to see huge numbers of insects coming to the flowers and was surprised at how few visited the flowers. I spent...
