Reports from the Field

Bug o’the Week – Once Upon an Ash Tree

Greetings, BugFans, Today’s saga could also be called “The Hemiptera Mystery,” though one of the Hemipterans appears only in a supporting role.  The main character is a decent-sized true bug […]

09.13.17

Bug o’the Week – Goldenrod Watch Act II

Howdy, BugFans, The BugLady keeps hearing that the summer movie season produced no blockbusters, so she’s running a second blockbuster BOTW in a row. The goldenrods in the BugLady’s field […]

09.06.17

Bug o’the Week – Way Out on the Lonesome Prairie

Salutations, BugFans, The BugLady has always been in love with wetlands – the pterodactyl lift-off of Great-blue Herons, a glint of dragonflies, the quiet splash of sun-warmed turtles sliding off […]

08.30.17

Bug o’the Week – Biting Gnats

Howdy, BugFans, This one has “bugged” the BugLady for a while – a nemesis-bug.  It photobombed shots of other insects and is so small (less than 1/8”) that the BugLady […]

08.24.17

Bug o’the Week – Common Silverfish redux

Salutations, BugFans, Summer reruns. Here’s an enhanced version (more fun silverfish facts) of an episode that first aired in the spring of 2009. Silverfish, in the Order Zygentoma (formerly in […]

08.10.17

Bug o’the Week – An Inordinate Fondness for Dragonflies

Howdy, BugFans, Dragonflies again.  The BugLady confesses to playing hooky recently (if going out and looking for insects is “playing hooky” for a BugLady), mostly surveying and photographing dragonflies. Dragonfly ancestors came […]

08.02.17

Bug o’ the Week – Four-toothed Mason Wasp

Greetings, BugFans, The protocol for BOTW episodes has always been “Start with a usable picture.”  Well…  The solitary wasp that created egg chambers in the BugLady’s wind chimes was having […]

07.26.17

Bug o’the Week – Protean Shield-backed Katydid

Salutations, BugFans, Protean Shield-backed Katydids evoke adjectives like “earthy” and “organic,” and “elemental” (along with “lunker”).  This utilitarian katydid looks like it saw the dinosaurs, and maybe it did.  Katydids […]

07.19.17

Bug o’the Week – Flying Ants

Greetings, BugFans, The BugLady got a very special request from almost-5-year-old BugFan Jolene, who is curious about “ant flies” (aka flying ants). The BugLady will try to answer her questions, […]

07.12.17

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