Bugs without Bios XX
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 …
Bug of the Week
Texas Ironclad Beetle Rerun
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 …
The Twelve (or so) Bugs of Christmas
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 …
Comet Darner Dragonfly
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 …
And Now for Something a Little Different XVIII – Red-breasted Mergansers
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, …
Blue Blow Fly
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 …
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 …