Note: All links below go to external sites. Howdy, BugFans, February 28 to March 4 is National Invasive Species Awareness Week. The word “invasive” is often used interchangeably with the words “alien,” “exotic,” “non-native,” and “introduced,” but they are not …
Note: All links below go to external sites. Howdy, BugFans, The BugLady found this grasshopper nymph in the dry sand zone of a Lake Michigan beach about 25 years ago (apologies – she’s never learned the secret handshake of making …
Note: All links below go to external sites. Howdy, BugFans, When the BugLady was on Riveredge’s excellent floating pier in the Milwaukee River last spring, she looked over and saw two, spectacular Striped fishing spiders on rocks above the waterline. …
Note: All links below go to external sites. Howdy, BugFans, What better time to write about dragonflies than in the depths of winter? The BugLady hasn’t officially spotted a spiketail. She knows where they live, and once, maybe, saw a …
Note: All links below go to external sites. Greetings BugFans, The Bugs in the News file is bursting at the seams again. Smithsonian magazine’s Daily Newsletter, the source of many of the news items in her file, is a great …
Note: All links below go to external sites. Howdy, BugFans, First of all, it’s a stunning butterfly https://bugguide.net/node/view/1734606/bgimage https://bugguide.net/node/view/1926994/bgimage (the BugLady’s picture doesn’t do it justice – the original slide, taken in Texas, was fine, but the scanned slide, not …
Note: All links below go to external sites. Greetings, BugFans, The “Bugs without Bios” series features a bunch of lovely insects that need to hire a PR firm – they fly happily below the radar, and little is written about …
Greetings, BugFans, It’s a bird that evokes strong feelings in its admirers and detractors. In winter, its beautiful blue, black and white colors perk up our otherwise drab landscapes. It can be very noisy or a real stealth bird. The …
Note: All links below go to external sites. Howdy, BugFans, We end this set of 50 (by the BugLady’s count, this is episode # 650) with a lovely dragonfly that the BugLady looks forward to seeing every year because of …
Note: All links below go to external sites. Salutations, BugFans, Here we are, in the trough between Christmas and New Year’s. The interminable Christmas movies have been put to bed (YAY!), and reruns rule. Here, too. Back in 2015, the BugLady …
