Closed for June – Feast or Famine

Howdy, BugFans,

Continuing with June’s BOTW Lite, we have tales of plenty and of scarcity.

In the first, insects are so plentiful that they show up on radar. First ladybugs, and then there’s a mayfly hatch along the Mississippi.

For the second, the BugLady has posted links in the past to a few articles about decreasing numbers of insects worldwide. This article is long (and annoyingly formatted) but very readable.

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About the photos – the BugLady is supposed to be photographing insects this month so that she can resume BOTW with a fat folder of photos (alas, with 540 BOTWs under her belt, most of the bugs she meets are old friends). Anyway, pelicans, not bugs, have been distracting her and she’s having trouble getting stuff done.

The BugLady

About the BugLady

The BugLady (aka Kate Redmond) is an Environmental Educator who has been having “close encounters” with insects all her life. She has worked and/or volunteered at Lac Lawrann Conservancy in West Bend, the Mequon Nature Preserve, and Riveredge Nature Center near Newburg and spoken at other area Nature Centers. At Riveredge, she has had the wonderful assignment of being the “sturgeon paparazza” at their annual sturgeon release. She leads field trips in the Cedarburg Bog, is a founding member of the Friends of the Cedarburg Bog, and is a current Board member of the Lake Michigan Bird Observatory. When she’s not appreciating insects, she’s enjoying prairies and wetlands.

Her 40 year addiction to photography is (almost) her only vice. She's gone through a number of cameras in the last 40 years, and now she packs a Pentax K-70 with a 70 mm macro lens.

The BugLady is a Wisconsin native, presently living in Sheboygan County. Most of the photos in Bug of the Week were taken in southeastern Wisconsin. Her Mission Statement is “Less stepping on bugs.”