Salutations, BugFans, Caddisflies are famous for having soft-bodied, aquatic larvae that, depending on their species and habitat, use plant materials or teeny stones to construct portable cases that may be […]
02.08.17
Greetings, BugFans, No – not March yet, but it will be some day. Actually, the BugLady had to wait until the end of October to find this March fly (Bibio […]
02.01.17
Howdy, BugFans, About six years ago, the BugLady posted three episodes about galls. What are galls? Technically speaking, a gall is an abnormal growth or swelling of external tissues. In […]
01.25.17
Greetings, BugFans, From the start, the main criterion for any BOTW episode has been a reasonably good picture of its protagonist (second is whether the BugLady can discover its story). […]
01.18.17
Howdy, BugFans, The BugLady’s #3 child nailed it years ago when she proclaimed her mother an “Essoterrorist” – someone with a fondness for squirreling away obscure facts. Here are some […]
01.11.17
Howdy, BugFans, Like other media in the period between Christmas and New Year’s, this is a rerun, though it is slightly enhanced from its original appearance eight years ago. But […]
12.28.16
Greetings of the Season, BugFans “The Twelve Days of Christmas” is an English carol that was probably borrowed from the French and that was originally an acapella chant/call-and-response/children’s memory game. […]
12.21.16
Greetings, BugFans, Ichneumons – what an amazing bunch! First-off, there are a whole lot of them. The numbers are a little soft, but the 5,000 species listed for North America […]
12.14.16
Hey, BugFans, The BugLady has expressed her affection for stink bugs before https://www4.uwm.edu/fieldstation/naturalhistory/bugoftheweek/stinkbugsrevisited.cfm (check out the story about how some stink bugs can escape from a spider web). To her […]
12.07.16
Hey, BugFans, One of the last bugs to grace the BugLady’s porch light in autumn is the brown lacewing (she sees its jewel-like cousin, the green lacewing, in mid-to-late summer). […]
11.30.16