Bug o’the Week – Ants in My Plants Rerun
Salutations, BugFans, Here we are, in the trough between Christmas and New Year’s. The interminable Christmas movies have been put to bed (YAY!), and reruns rule. Here, too.
01.06.22
Reports from the Field
01.06.22
Bug o’ the Week: The Twelve(ish) Bugs of Christmas
Season’s Greetings, BugFans, When the BugLady initiated this annual tradition in 2012 – showing pictures of bugs she had photographed but whom (objective case) she had already written about (OK – about whom she had already written) – she was already in trouble.
01.06.22
Bug o’the Week – Striped Hairstreak Butterfly
Howdy, BugFans, Hairstreaks are spiffy little butterflies that are named for the hair-like markings found on their underwings. Most have thin, twin tails (sometimes two pairs of tails) on the […]
12.15.21
Bug o’the Week – Southern Spreadwing Damselfly
Howdy BugFans, Full disclosure: the BugLady’s copy of Bob Dubois’s Damselflies of the North Woods (aka The Bible) automatically falls open to the page that shows the rear ends of the male […]
12.08.21
Bug o’the Week – Agreeable Tiger Moth
Greetings, BugFans, Years ago, the BugLady photographed a Giant Leopard moth https://bugguide.net/node/view/1967163/bgimage. It was a tough shot – the moth was tucked up under the eaves of a house. It’s – […]
11.19.21
Bug o’the Week – Carpenter Ants
Howdy, BugFans, The BugLady lives in a log cottage that’s rough cedar on the inside (think splinters), so when, one night, this Carpenter ant queen dropped down from the ceiling […]
11.10.21
Bug o’the Week – Bugs in the News XI
Howdy, BugFans, Hawks are still flying; bugs, not so much. Lots of grasshoppers along the trail, and a variety of flies and some sweat bees on the late-blooming dandelions (and […]
11.03.21
Bug o’the Week – Forked Fungus Beetle Redux
Howdy, BugFans, The BugLady has been out counting migrating raptors. Here’s a rerun of an episode about an amazing beetle that the BugLady encountered in the late spring of 2014. […]
10.15.21
Bug o’the Week – Therion Wasp
Greetings, BugFans, The BugLady stood on a boardwalk in a wetland for about half an hour trying to photograph this amazing wasp as it dodged through thickets of sedges, ferns, […]
10.06.21
Bug o’the Week – And Now for Something a Little Different XI – Pitcher Plants
Greetings, BugFans, The BugLady was on a wetland walk years ago when someone asked the leader “Why do pitcher plants grow here?” His answer, simple and elegant, “Because they can.” […]
09.29.21