Howdy, BugFans, Towards the end of June, the BugLady photographed this lovely little moth on her front porch. She took a quick peek in the moth book – nada – and relegated […]
08.16.17
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
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
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
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
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
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