Greetings, BugFans, The BugLady found this beautiful little butterfly in the dunes at Kohler-Andrae State Park recently. She doesn’t see coppers often, and she always forgets how small they are — a tad smaller than a Pearl Crescent. Coppers are …
(Note: Links below are to external sites. Click on thumbnail images to see larger versions.) Greetings, BugFans, The BugLady has been scouring the landscape and aiming her camera at anything that will sit still (and some that won’t). And without going too overboard …
Howdy, BugFans, BugFan Freda photographed this astonishing beetle while she was on vacation Up North. It’s in the family Buprestidae, the Metallic wood-boring beetles, aka the Jewel beetles. The larvae, which have a flat area behind their heads, contribute another name—the …
Greetings, BugFans, Well, the BugLady completely zoned about National Moth Week last week, so we are celebrating it now, tardily. (But hey, every week is Moth Week.) BugFan Mary emailed to say that she found a deceased Imperial Moth, and …
Note: All links below are to external sites. Greetings, BugFans, The BugLady encountered this distinctive wolf spider (family Lycosidae) recently at Spruce Lake Bog, and then discovered some earlier shots of it from Riveredge in her “X-Files.” She figured that …
Howdy, BugFans, First off, today’s vocabulary word is “microlep” (short for “microlepidoptera”). What’s a microlep? The (somewhat squishy) term applies to moths with a wingspan under 20mm (about ¾”). It’s not a taxonomic or a lifestyle designation – there are microleps …
Greetings, BugFans Here are some of the bugs that the BugLady found in June, which was, overall, a hot and wet month (7.97” of rain at the BugLady’s cottage). Lizzard Beetle – the BugLady doesn’t know why these striking beetles …
Howdy, BugFans, The BugLady and her camera have been out scouring the uplands and wetlands for insects that will sit still long enough to have their portrait made. Many of today’s bugs have starred in their own BOTWs over the years, …
Howdy, BugFans, June is waning, and pretty soon the BugLady will have to stop eating chocolates and watching soaps and get up off the couch and start writing. Actually, with a way warmer and wetter June than normal (more than 7” …
Howdy, BugFans, A pollinator is an animal (not all pollinators are insects) that visits flowers and carries their pollen to other flowers. Bees, butterflies, moths, flies, beetles, and wasps are all practitioners to some degree. Hummingbirds pollinate a few flowers (like …
