Bug of the Week

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 …

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 …