Merrill Peterson
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| Moths Of The Pacific Northwest | A Western Washington University biology professor, along with hundreds of other naturalists, biologists and moth collectors, has launched a comprehensive website to keep track of local moths. Turns out we have our fair share in the Pacific Northwest. We look at the region's diversity of… |
2012-08-06 | |
| Moths hold the spotlight in first comprehensive guide to Northwest species | Butterflies are easy to love, but their night-flying cousins have always been a little harder to cozy up to. A group of Northwest biologists hopes to change that with the first comprehensive guide to the region's moths. |
2012-07-27 | |
| WWU, Bellingham collector help launch new website exploring Pacific Northwest moths | Lars Crabo's hunt for a moth once took him to sandy soil near Vale, Ore., in the mid-1990s. It was hot, dry, dusty and desolate that night. Crabo wore shorts, sandals or maybe it was beat-up boat shoes, and a head lamp. There were black widow spiders crawling all over the ground, and… |
2012-07-27 | |
| National Moth Week kicks off with release of photographic encyclopedia of Northwest moths | It's National Moth Week. Have you made plans yet? Merrill Peterson, a biology professor at Western Washington University, has. With the help of colleagues from around the world, he has released an online encyclopedia of Northwest moths. This new catalog includes high-… |
2012-07-24 | |
| Professor launches encyclopedic moth website | 2012-07-20 | ||
| So Much Life on a Little Patch of Earth | I’ve logged thousands of miles to catch a glimpse of one exotic creature or another, to Costa Rica to be dazzled by the bird known as the resplendent quetzal, to Hawaii to admire sea turtles, to Venezuela to spy man-eating anacondas. So it seemed more than a little odd that the one time I made a… |
2012-04-24 | |
| Weeds in flowers' clothing: Garden plants that wreak havoc | "For most gardeners, the rearing of a dandelion head evokes an almost visceral response. Weeds such as buttercup, thistle and bindweed are considered intolerable, particularly when they edge their way into manicured turf and neatly tended beds. And yet, many gardeners overlook - even… |
2010-04-05 |