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Closed for June 3 – More Pollinators

Howdy, BugFans, A pollinator is an animal (not all pollinators are insects) that visits flowers and carries their pollen to other flowers.  Bees, butterflies, moths, flies, beetles, and wasps are all practitioners to some degree. Hummingbirds pollinate a few flowers (like …

And Now for Something Different – Cattails

Note: All links leave to external sites. Howdy, BugFans, This episode was adapted from an article that the BugLady wrote in 2007 for the BogHaunter, the newsletter of the Friends of the Cedarburg Bog.  Wanted: Colonists to settle in wide open spaces. Must …

And Now for Something a Little Different XVI – Turkey Vulture

Note: All links leave to external sites. Howdy BugFans, The BugLady hangs out on a tower by Lake Michigan from the beginning of September until the end of November, logging migrating raptors as they navigate south along the shoreline (up …

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