Bug of the Week

Agreeable Tiger Moth

Note: All links below go to external sites. Greetings, BugFans, Years ago, the BugLady photographed a Giant Leopard moth. It was a tough shot – the moth was tucked up under the eaves of a house. It’s – OK —… Read More

Carpenter Ants

Howdy, BugFans, The BugLady lives in a log cottage that’s rough cedar on the inside (think splinters), so when, one night, this Carpenter ant queen dropped down from the ceiling onto a book she was reading, she may have overreacted… Read More

Bugs in the News XI

Note: All links below go to external sites. Howdy, BugFans, Hawks are still flying; bugs, not so much. Lots of grasshoppers along the trail, and a variety of flies and some sweat bees on the late-blooming dandelions (and just two… Read More

Bi-colored Striped Sweat Bee

Howdy, BugFans, Isn’t this a pretty little bee! Sweat bees are in the family Halictidae, and the star of today’s show is in the Striped sweat bee genus Agapostemon (which means “stamen-loving”). It’s a New World genus totaling 42 species… Read More

Flying Ants rerun

Greetings, BugFans, Life has been busy – fantastic week for migrating raptors – so here’s a rerun from the summer of 2017. Back live next week. The BugLady got a very special request from almost-5-year-old BugFan Jolene, who is curious… Read More

Forked Fungus Beetle Redux

Note: All links below go to external sites. Howdy, BugFans, The BugLady has been out counting migrating raptors. Here’s a rerun of an episode about an amazing beetle that the BugLady encountered in the late spring of 2014. Every once… Read More

Therion Wasp

Note: All links below go to external sites. Greetings, BugFans, The BugLady stood on a boardwalk in a wetland for about half an hour trying to photograph this amazing wasp as it dodged through thickets of sedges, ferns, and orchids,… Read More

And Now for Something a Little Different XI – Pitcher Plants

Note: All links below go to external sites. Greetings, BugFans, The BugLady was on a wetland walk years ago when someone asked the leader “Why do pitcher plants grow here?” His answer, simple and elegant, “Because they can.” Indeed, there… Read More

Late Summer Reflections

Note: All links below go to external sites. Howdy, BugFans, The BugLady has been out looking for bugs as the summer winds down; her dragonfly and butterfly surveys have been yielding fewer and fewer species these days. It has been… Read More

Two-spotted Tree Cricket

The BugLady had a visitor at her front door the other day – a Two-spotted tree cricket. When they think of tree crickets, most people picture a delicate, flat, green member of the genus Oecanthus. Oecanthus tree crickets, with a… Read More