Lichen Moths
Note: All links below go to external sites. Howdy, BugFans, The BugLady sat on the hawk tower today, watching the start of the fall migration. She was surrounded by the start of the dragonfly migration – there was a big …
Bug of the Week
Great Blue Skimmer Dragonfly
Note: All links below go to external sites. Howdy, BugFans, The BugLady was looking for bugs in Kohler-Andrae State Park in late July when a large dragonfly flew across the trail and landed about 12 feet up on some shrubs. …
Rose Chafer Beetle
Note: All links below go to external sites. Greetings, BugFans, The BugLady was surprised, as she trekked across the dunes at Kohler-Andrae State Park one steamy day in early July, to find this small, gangly beetle hanging out on some …
Mid-Summer Scenes
Greetings, BugFans, Summer has reached its half-way point, and the BugLady has been recording the changing of the guard. The adult lives of most insects are brief – four to six weeks for many, and considerably less for some. Bluet …
Cuckoo Leafcutter Bee
Greetings, BugFans, The story of the Cuckoo leafcutter bee has several moving parts. It starts with the family Megachilidae (of recent BOTW fame), a large and diverse group of solitary bees that includes the leafcutter, mason, and resin bees, and …
A Tale of Two Butterflies – Part 2 – Marine Blue
Note: All links below go to external sites. Howdy, BugFans, A few days after she found an American Snout butterfly (of recent BOTW fame), the BugLady saw this small, pale, worn butterfly ahead of her on the ground. At first, …
A Tale of two Butterflies – Part 1 – the American Snout
Note: All links below go to external sites. Howdy BugFans, The BugLady found two interesting butterflies in mid-June – one, the American Snout, is a fairly regular visitor from the South, and the other (see next week’s BOTW) puts in …
Early Summer Scenes – The Dragonflies
Greetings, BugFans, Spring was long and cool, an arrangement that the BugLady usually applauds (she savors every little step into spring, and she doesn’t like it when the phenology of six weeks is squished into one or two). But this …
Early Summer Scenes
Howdy, BugFans, Well, the sun has solsticed, and it’s all downhill from here. Our pre-Christian, Germanic ancestors, who were more intimately attuned to the rhythms of the sun, correctly celebrated the winter solstice, aka Yule (which may have come from …
Closed for June – Invasion from the Far, Far East
Note: All links below go to external sites. Howdy, BugFans, Wisconsin’s Invasive Species month and the BugLady’s month off are drawing to a simultaneous end, and she will be back “live” next week. Not surprisingly, her search for random insects …