Reports from the Field

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

Bug o’the Week – A Surprising Porch Bug

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

Bug o’the Week – Technicolor Thoughts

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

Bug o’the Week – Tiger Swallowtail Brood I

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

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