Organ Pipe Mud Daubers (again)

Note: All links leave to external sites. Howdy, BugFans, Here’s a Holiday Rerun with some new words added for good measure (because who can look at something they wrote 12 years ago and not tweak it?).  The BugLady had fun …

Dogwood Scurfy Scale

Howdy, BugFans, If asked to describe a Red-osier dogwood shrub, lots of people would say “it has red bark with white lumps on it.” It does – but it doesn’t. Some of our most un-bug-like bugs are the scale insects. …

Common Buckeye Butterfly Rewrite

Howdy, BugFans, The BugLady originally wrote about the Common Buckeye in January of 2009, but she thinks she might have given it short shrift (due to insufficient scholarship), so here’s a rewritten version with new words and new pictures. The …

Two Enigmatic Insects

Howdy, BugFans, In her program about insect Natural History, the BugLady says to the audience “so – we’ve been studying insects for hundreds of years – we’ve got it all nailed down, right?” Sure. The BugLady has had some interesting …

Oil Beetle Adventures

Greetings, BugFans, When the BugLady was walking at Riveredge towards the end of September, she came to a fork in the trail and thought “if I go left, I’ll get back to the car faster, but if I go right, …

Wooly Bear Caterpillar again

Greetings, BugFans, The BugLady has been doing a little dance as she walks down the trail lately, trying to avoid stepping on wooly bear caterpillars (her mission statement, after all, is “Less stepping on bugs”). She has been less successful when …

Bugs in the News XIV

Greetings, BugFans,  Time to chip away at the BugLady’s giant collection of insect articles. Note that most of them are from various (free) on-line reports put out by the Smithsonian.  Spiders – We have semi-aquatic spiders around here, too. Most, like …

Little Yellow Butterfly

Howdy, BugFans, When the BugLady was on the trail recently, a small, yellow butterfly flew by, just above the ground. It was noticeably smaller than the ubiquitous Orange and Clouded Sulphurs, but it zipped out of sight pretty fast. Mike Reese, …

Rough Stink Bug

Greetings, BugFans, The BugLady has a thing for stink bugs. They’re like bumble bees and water lilies – she can’t walk past one without taking its picture. She especially likes stink bugs in the genus Brochymena, the Rough stink bugs, which look like …

The End of Summer

Howdy, BugFans, We’ve arrived at the final act in this summer’s insect drama – a drama played out over the months by an ever-changing cast of characters. Some are regulars, with successive generations appearing in multiple acts throughout the season, while …

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