By Christy Solo – ONPA 1st Place Award Winner for Best Local Column
This week we’ll meet a pretty flitter who is a fairly new resident of Oregon. Meet the small ranunculus moth (Hecatera dysodea). We’ll call them “ranu” for brevity’s sake.
What’s in a name? We’ll be honest here, neither the common nor binomial names of this moth make much sense.
Let’s break it all down, starting with the binomial. The genus…
