Howdy, BugFans, Sawflies appear infrequently in these pages, the most recently a year ago, in the person of the spectacular Elm sawfly (https://uwm.edu/field-station/elm-sawfly/). The sawflies that the BugLady typically sees […]
02.17.21
Greetings, BugFans, The BugLady thought it was time to give this episode from 2008 a make-over – many new words and pictures. Mayflies, order Ephemeroptera (which means “short-lived wings”) are […]
02.10.21
Howdy, BugFans, The BugLady will always associate this wasp with the pandemic. In early summer, she got an email from a BugFan who, because she was working from home (and […]
01.27.21
Howdy, BugFans, In mid-summer, water hemlock bloomed lushly in the swamps at the north end of the Bog. A note about water hemlock (Cicuta maculata), a wetland plant that looks […]
01.20.21
Greetings, BugFans, The story of this fly (whose name is considerably longer than the fly itself) demonstrates why the BugLady loves BOTW. Could she dig up a lot of details […]
01.08.21
Greetings, BugFans, Between Christmas and New Year’s Day, it’s all reruns. Please enjoy this slightly updated episode about a pretty little garden scourge, along with a year-end sermonette. . This […]
01.04.21
Howdy, BugFans, The BugLady found this beautiful, rosy Red-cross shield bug while she was wandering around at the north end of the Bog on a fine day in May. Once […]
12.09.20
Greetings, BugFans, The BugLady’s file of insect-related media stories runneth over, and it’s time to share. Here’s a potpourri of items on invasive insect species, insect behavior, spectacular insects, and […]
12.02.20
Greetings, BugFans, The BugLady is living proof that there’s a big difference between looking and seeing. For years, she’s been photographing these little black and yellow wasps and filing them […]
11.25.20
Salutations, BugFans, Here’s a rerun from August of 2014. What a magical little fly! Most BugFans are familiar with crane flies, those giant, non-biting “mosquitoes” in the family Tipulidae https://bugguide.net/node/view/1895587/bgimage (some of […]
11.11.20