By Christy Solo – ONPA 1st Place Award Winner for Best Local Column
Note: For the entirety of Halloween Season 2026 we are going to reprint All Things and Crawlies from Octobers past. We just can’t do better – or spookier – columns and each of them is well worth re-reading. Enjoy!
This week’s crawly is Oregon’s gothic gravedigger. Meet the black burying beetle (Nicrophorus nigrita).
Here I do want to issue…
