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 …
Greetings, BugFans, The BugLady has mentioned before that she has several “nemesis bugs” – insects whose photographs are inevitably out of focus. Fireflies, for some reason, are one of those groups. So, when she saw this small (1/3”) beetle on a leaf …
Howdy, BugFans, The BugLady has always wanted to see a trig, because – what an interesting name for an insect (a name, it turns out, that’s a shortened version of its family, Trigonidiidae). Trigs, members of the grasshopper/cricket/katydid order Orthoptera, are …
Howdy, BugFans, There has been a paucity of dragonflies and damselflies on the BugLady’s landscapes this season (and they’re urgently needed to eat mosquitoes right now). She has, though, seen more Gliders than usual this summer (or maybe she’s finally developed an …
Howdy BugFans, It’s been a while since we visited the world of galls. According to the British Plant Gall Society, a gall is “an abnormal growth produced by a plant or other host under the influence of another organism. It …
Howdy, BugFans, The BugLady has enjoyed her vacation and is ready to dive back into writing original BOTWS (until she gets another body part replaced). Here’s a small moth, to celebrate National Moth Week. BugFan Freda sent a shot of …
Salutations, BugFans, 2025 – The BugLady confesses that she rarely finds these Giant silk moths, either as adults or as caterpillars. So rarely that some of these pictures are scanned slides/transparencies, from the olden days. In the years since this episode was posted, …
