Howdy, BugFans, One of the BugLady’s inquilines is an Eastern parson spider. An inquiline (from the Latin inquilinus meaning “lodger” or “tenant”) is an animal that lives in the dwelling of another animal. Like the Tree frog that overwintered with the BugLady last …
Howdy, BugFans, What an awesome beetle – thanks to BugFan Dave for sharing it! There’s not a whole lot of information out there about this species, and there’s some misinformation (more about that in a sec), so let’s sneak up …
Greetings, BugFans, It’s the week between Christmas and New Year’s, and the TV stations that aren’t showing sports and reruns are airing Hallmark Holiday movies. Here’s a rerun from 2012—old words, new pictures. Here’s the “take-home”—when you meet a critter with …
Howdy, BugFans, It’s that time of year again—time to put our feet up, sip adult beverages by the light of the tree, hum “The Twelve Bugs Days of Christmas,” and dream of spring. (The days are getting longer, you know.) Here are …
Howdy, BugFans, In mid-summer, BugFan Dave shared these dynamite pictures of a pretty spiffy little spider that the BugLady has never seen—the (unhyphenated) Redspotted antmimic spider (Castianeira descripta). Thanks, Dave! Antmimic spiders used to be in the “catchall” Sac spider family Clubionidae, …
Howdy, BugFans, For the past two weeks, the BugLady has been having some off and on – mostly on – internet issues (not self-inflicted this time), which resulted in four intensive Spectrum phone calls, during which they tinkered with her system …
Howdy, BugFans, It’s the start of December – and of meteorological winter – and it’s cold out, and the BugLady is still wondering what, exactly, happened to August. Here’s a little slice of August, from 15 years ago. The BugLady’s advice …
Howdy, BugFans, Here’s a rerun from 2010, with a few new words and pictures. The BugLady would like to state up front that this episode is about “pennants” (as in “small flags”), not about “penance,” which is between BugFans and …
Greetings, BugFans, This is a revision of a story from 2009 about one of the BugLady’s favorite little (less than ½”) flies, the Long-tailed dance fly (some new words and pictures). It appears in moist, dappled shade in the month of …
Greetings, BugFans, In honor of Halloween, we’re ending the month with a spider. A very cool little spider with a big story. The Dewdrop spider Argyrodes elevatus (Argyrodes means “silver-like), in the Cobweb/Comb-footed/Tangle-web spider family Theridiidae, doesn’t live around here, though other genera of …
