Note: All links below go to external sites. Season’s Greetings, BugFans, When the BugLady initiated this annual tradition in 2012 – showing pictures of bugs she had photographed but whom (objective case) she had already written about (OK – about …
Note: All links below go to external sites. Howdy, BugFans, Hairstreaks are spiffy little butterflies that are named for the hair-like markings found on their underwings. Most have thin, twin tails (sometimes two pairs of tails) on the trailing edge …
Note: All links below go to external sites. Howdy BugFans, Full disclosure: the BugLady’s copy of Bob Dubois’s Damselflies of the North Woods (aka The Bible) automatically falls open to the page that shows the rear ends of the male Spreadwings. So …
Salutations, BugFans, The other night, the BugLady’s cat started pacing back and forth on the window sills, peering out and yowling. The BugLady turned on an outside light and saw a possum under the bird feeder (which is great, because they clean up the sunflower seed the squirrels spill by day). The cat barely looks at the six, chunky …
Note: All links below go to external sites. Howdy, BugFans, The Slant-faced pasture grasshopper is the BugLady’s new, favorite grasshopper (well, not really – grasshopper-wise, her heart belongs to the lichen-y-looking Pine tree spur-throated grasshopper). The two species aren’t closely …
Note: All links below go to external sites. Greetings, BugFans, Years ago, the BugLady photographed a Giant Leopard moth. It was a tough shot – the moth was tucked up under the eaves of a house. It’s – OK — …
Howdy, BugFans, The BugLady lives in a log cottage that’s rough cedar on the inside (think splinters), so when, one night, this Carpenter ant queen dropped down from the ceiling onto a book she was reading, she may have overreacted …
Note: All links below go to external sites. Howdy, BugFans, Hawks are still flying; bugs, not so much. Lots of grasshoppers along the trail, and a variety of flies and some sweat bees on the late-blooming dandelions (and just two …
Howdy, BugFans, Isn’t this a pretty little bee! Sweat bees are in the family Halictidae, and the star of today’s show is in the Striped sweat bee genus Agapostemon (which means “stamen-loving”). It’s a New World genus totaling 42 species …
Greetings, BugFans, Life has been busy – fantastic week for migrating raptors – so here’s a rerun from the summer of 2017. Back live next week. The BugLady got a very special request from almost-5-year-old BugFan Jolene, who is curious …
