Salutations, BugFans, 2026 – When the BugLady wrote this episode in February of 2013, she kicked it off by griping about the weather – a favorite, February, indoor sport. This year, we’ve had many days of below average, below freezing, and below …
Greetings, BugFans, BugFan Dave shared these spectacular pictures of a very cool beetle that he found last summer – a ground beetle in the family Carabidae, a huge family with 40,000+ species. It’s in the subfamily Scaritinae, the “Pedunculate ground …
Greetings, BugFans, BugFan Danielle sent these shots and wondered if the moth might be a Bee moth (Aphomia sociella) (the Bee moth is not to be mistaken for the amazing little Moth fly, of previous BOTW fame -? – Clogmia albipunctata …
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 …
Note: All links are to an external site. Howdy, BugFans, The original Buck moth episode was written in 2010, so the BugLady decided to check on the present status of the moths. New words, new pictures. One of the BugLady’s favorite …
Note: All links are to an external site. Howdy, BugFans, The BugLady spends the spring and summer combing natural areas for bugs and flowers and other stuff to photograph, but in fall, she sits on a 10-foot-tall tower, counting migrating …
Howdy, BugFans, Back in 2020, the BugLady wrote about a Southern spider called the Spinybacked orbweaver Spinybacked Orbweaver– A Spider for Snowbirds – Field Station. We have spiny spiders here in God’s Country, too – this summer, BugFan Danielle sent a …
