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, …
Greetings, BugFans, Long-time BugFans know that the BugLady is infatuated with the lovely, sedentary Flower Crab spiders (family Thomisidae) that she photographs throughout the summer, and she recently posted a BOTW about the chunkier Ground crab spiders (also Thomisidae). Running crab spiders, …
Greetings, BugFans, Leaf miners have been mentioned in these pages before – even the Aspen leaf miner (Phyllocnistis populiella) has appeared briefly. When she did a little more research, the BugLady was ecstatic to discover that Aspen leaf miners have an …
Howdy, BugFans, This is a Good-News-Bad News-Stay-Tuned kind of story. But first, a little background. Besides being large and lovely, Monarch butterflies, of course, catch our fancy because of the death-defying migrations they undertake twice a year. Migrations – fueled by flowers …
Note: All links are to an external site. Greetings, BugFans, Last year, BugFan Nancy told the BugLady that she was making a quilt with a dragonfly motif, and asked what colors dragonflies came in. All of them. The BugLady sent her …
