Howdy, BugFans, The BugLady added a new porch light bug recently – a Northern Pearly-eye. Butterfly. At 11 PM. The porch-light Pearly-eye is not the first one that the BugLady has […]
07.05.17
Salutations, BugFans, A century ago, give or take, Herbert Kalmus, Daniel Frost Comstock, and W. Burton Wescott founded the Technicolor (a trademarked name) Motion Picture Corporation and applied for a […]
06.28.17
Howdy, BugFans, A lovely article about jumping spiders, though you have to wade through a few ads to read it. It contains a juicy vocabulary word – new to the […]
06.21.17
Greetings, BugFans, Anyone with siblings has heard/said “Mom always liked you best.” Out of all the bugs she has seen, photographed, researched, and written about, the BugLady likes Eastern Tiger […]
06.14.17
Salutations, BugFans, The BugLady’s evening hours at the computer are now accompanied by the soft “thunk, thunk” of June beetles hitting the window. If the first rule of looking for […]
05.31.17
[av_textblock size=” font_color=” color=”] At 6 to 7 ½ mm long, the Eastern Calligrapher is mid-sized for its genus. Like many syrphids – even the mosquito-sized species – it mimics […]
05.24.17
Howdy, BugFans, Someone asked the BugLady recently if she ever runs into a bug who she doesn’t know. Short answer – all the time, but mostly her guesses are in […]
05.22.17
Greetings, BugFans, Another celebration of insects that are not good enough nor bad enough nor beautiful enough nor bizarre enough to have fan clubs, or common names, or even much […]
05.10.17
Howdy, BugFans, Today’s episode celebrates the Carolina Saddlebags, the third saddlebags species to grace these pages; but first, a brief commercial message. Birders (and non-birders) are urged to tune in […]
05.03.17
Salutations, BugFans, Guest location: the Twin Cities Guest moth photographer: BugFan-in-Law Steve At the very beginning of April, the BugLady received an email with pictures from her sister, BugFan Molly […]
04.26.17