Greetings, BugFans, The BugLady likes to “bug” (if birders “bird,” can “bug” be a verb for folks who are looking for insects?) along the Milwaukee River at Waubedonia Park because (surprise) it’s great for dragonflies and damselflies – she’s photographed …
Note: All links are to an external site. Greetings, BugFans, The BugLady usually times the Wildflower Watch episodes so that BugFans can rush out and see the flower in bloom with its attendant bugs, but it’s the middle of January, …
Note: Links are to external sites. Howdy, BugFans, We’ll ease into 2025 with a few short pieces about bugs for whom there is very little info available — and yet they are lovely. They spend their lives doing their jobs …
Note: All links are to external sites. Howdy, BugFans, It’s New Year’s Eve, and BugFans are probably either partying or watching reruns. Today’s BOTW is a rerun of one of the BugLady’s favorites. Think of it as a Holiday Movie. When …
Season’s Greetings, BugFans, It’s time to celebrate a dozen (or so) of the beautiful bugs that posed for the BugLady this year (and that have already graced their own episodes). Click on each photo to read more. Great Spangled Fritillary …
Note: All links leads to an external site. Greetings, BugFans, The Holidays are hurtling toward us at an astonishing speed, so the BugLady figured that a Christmas green and red dragonfly would be fitting. It’s one that she’s seen, all too …
Note: All links leads to an external site. Howdy BugFans, Perched, as she is, on the rim of the Lake Michigan, the BugLady has a front row seat for the activities of the Lake and its residents (and, of course, …
Howdy BugFans, It’s gotten cold here in God’s Country – abruptly – with overnight lows in the high teens/low twenties, and daytime highs below freezing. The water in the birdbath froze solid for a few nights in a row before the …
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 …
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. …
