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 …
Howdy, BugFans, Homage: “something that someone does or says in order to show respect or admiration.” (Macmillan). In this case, it’s a grudging tip of the hat – we may not appreciate them, but we acknowledge that they are very …
