Bug o’the Week – Spider Flight rerun
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
Reports from the Field
12.13.17
Bug of the Week – Bugs in the News III
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
Bug o’the Week – Spined Assassin Bug
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
Bug o’the Week – Forktails Two
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
Bug o’the Week – A Honey of a Bee
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
Bug o’the Week – Hobomok Skipper
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
Bug o’the Week – Bugs without Bios X
Salutations, BugFans, Introducing three unsung (but worthy) bugs, whose definitive biographies have yet to be written. ENTYLIA CARINATA (no common name) is a treehopper in the family Membracidae (from the Greek […]
11.01.17
Bug o’the Week – Magical Moths
Greetings, BugFans, There are about 11,000 species of moths in North America, and many of them fit the birders’ all-purpose acronym for sparrows and other small, songbirds – “LBJ” – […]
10.18.17
Bug o’the Week – A Bundle of Beetles
Salutations, BugFans, Here’s a selection of beetles that the BugLady found this summer. A blushing beetle! Who knew? The COREOPSIS BEETLE (Calligrapha californica) is a species that has several subspecies and lots […]
10.11.17
Bug o’the week – Galls V
Greetings, BugFans, As the leaves color and fall, some interesting galls are being revealed. Quick review – a gall is an abnormal and localized tissue growth on a plant (or […]
09.27.17