Salutations, BugFans, Introducing some insects that, while not totally unsung, still have a pretty low profile. The YELLOW-HEADED CUTWORM (Apamea amputatrix) is a lovely little moth that’s named for its caterpillar, a […]
01.11.18
Salutations, BugFans, Let us usher in the New Year with dragonflies. Two of them. Whiteface dragonflies are in the genus Leucorrhinia in the large (1,000+ species) and glorious Skimmer family Libellulidae. There are […]
01.03.18
Salutations, BugFans, BugFan Marjie says that, on the bright side, she hasn’t gotten any bug bites recently. That would be an interesting poll to take – bug bites vs below […]
12.27.17
Greetings of the Season, BugFans, ‘Tis the Season for the annual Twelve Bugs of Christmas – a baker’s dozen, actually, of oddities (and wonders) that the BugLady found during the […]
12.20.17
Howdy, BugFans, This holiday rerun from 2011 was inspired by an amazing flight of spiders that the BugLady witnessed at Horicon Marsh in Central Wisconsin. It was the kind of […]
12.13.17
Howdy, BugFans, The BugLady is busy writing about shagbark hickory (for the Friends of the Cedarburg Bog) and Short-eared Owls (for the Western Great Lakes Bird and Bat Observatory), so […]
12.06.17
Salutations, BugFans, We have visited the Assassin bug family Reduviidae before, in the form of Masked hunters, Ambush bugs, and the lovely little Zelus. Today’s bug is the Spined assassin bug […]
12.01.17
Salutations, BugFans, The BugLady is thankful for damselflies. Oh, not always for the identification part, but for the joy of seeing them flickering through their thickety habitats and for the […]
11.22.17
Howdy, BugFans, Somewhere in a remote corner of Southeast Asia, in the neighborhood of 34 million years ago, a small bee originated that would change the course of the world. […]
11.16.17
Greetings, BugFans, The BugLady is already yearning for dragonflies and butterflies and other flying objects that are larger than the Asian ladybugs, Western conifer seed bugs, and the few rogue […]
11.09.17