The Sam Wells Bug Page

Last month I had a free couple of days and decided to spend them hiking with Kent, Spencer and Erik. We decided to go through the Ashdown Go...

Last week I found myself driving down a lonely Nevada highway listening to a boring audio book (by Sigmund Freud) when my eye wandered to a ...

One of California's truly spectacular flowers is the western azalea. Every time I see this plant in bloom - with its large showy white f...

Following is a list of bird species seen in Panama during the second week of March, 2014 – by Steve Bonta, Jon Quist and myself. We started ...

Last month I took a side trip through Southern California's Joshua Tree National Park. December is an odd time of the year to make such ...

It's now the beginning of November and still the rains have not come to Fresno with any sort of confidence. Our days are very pleasant i...

The bagrada bug ( Bagrada hilaris ) has finally made it to Fresno. Michael Yang announced last week that he found it among Hmong farms in Fr...