Greetings, BugFans, The BugLady heard a funny sound while she was reading the other night, the kind of small thunk, thunk, thunk that made her wonder if there might be a small leak in […]
03.20.19
Howdy, BugFans, PART ONE – THE BACKGROUND: As we all know, there’s a huge difference between looking and seeing. The BugLady has a wooden pier across the top of the dune that protects […]
03.06.19
Salutations, BugFans, The BugLady found this impressive (1 ½” to 2”) slug climbing around on her cottage in early October. It has been almost 11 years since we last considered […]
02.27.19
Salutations, BugFans, Another celebration of (regrettably) anonymous bugs. There are in the neighborhood of 100,000 insect species in North America, but not everyone has a biographer (note to self – […]
02.20.19
Howdy, BugFans, Even in a group of damselflies that are called bluets, the Azure Bluet is an amazing color! Bluets are damselflies in the Narrow-winged/Pond Damselfly family Coenagrionidae, which also […]
02.13.19
Greetings, BugFans, The BugLady found this striking spider at Riveredge Nature Center one early summer day. What it lacks in size (it’s less than ½”), it surely makes up for […]
02.07.19
If a canary is a health gauge for air quality in a coal mine, then one might consider our native temperate orchids a gauge for the health of our native […]
02.01.19
Howdy, BugFans, The BugLady has been wanting to do an episode about Bess beetles for a long time, but she didn’t have a picture of one (many thanks to BugFans […]
01.30.19
Greetings, BugFans, Back in the summer of 2009, the BugLady found a spectacular grasshopper in the UWM Field Station prairie (she waded in, her desire to photograph it outweighing apprehension […]
01.24.19
Salutations, BugFans, The summer of 2018 saw an encouraging number of sightings of Rusty-patched bumble bees in southeastern Wisconsin – encouraging because the Rusty-patched bumble bee is on the Federal […]
01.16.19