Greetings, BugFans, 2026: In the early days of BOTW, the BugLady wrote a series of episodes about household bugs, including fleas, house centipedes, moth flies, meal moths, pseudoscorpions, wireworms/dermestid beetles, silverfish, long-bellied cellar spiders, and camel crickets (which lived in the …
Howdy, BugFans, The star of today’s show is the Virginian Tiger Moth (probably), not to be confused with the considerably-more-decorative Virgin Tiger Moth (Grammia virgo). Tiger moths are in a tribe called Arctiini (Tiger moths) in a subfamily called Arctiinae …
Howdy, BugFans, Well, we’re into October. The BugLady is still seeing and hearing lots of bugs as she makes her way to the hawk tower, where she counts migrating raptors from a perch 10 feet off the ground. Most of the …
Howdy, BugFans, The BugLady was out taking pictures on the beach when she spied this spiffy Cottonwood leaf beetle, a member of the very large (probably 50,000 species worldwide) leaf beetle family Chrysomelidae). It was actually a few feet away from …
Howdy, BugFans, It’s August!!! Or, to put it another way, it’s August – yikes! Halfway(ish) through summer. Here are some of the sights that the BugLady has enjoyed so far. Many of these have already starred in a BOTW of their very own – …
Howdy, BugFans, On a walk at Spruce Lake Bog in May, the BugLady spied this Bronze jumping spider (Eris militaris, in the family Salticidae) (thanks, Mike) sitting on an unfolding alder leaf. He spied her, gave her a firm look and …
Howdy, BugFans, Now that summer has arrived with a vengeance, it’s time to take a quick look back at some spring bug experiences. BUMBLE BEE ON PINK LADY’S SLIPPER – A website about Wisconsin’s native orchids lists “naïve bumble bees” …
Salutations, BugFans, 2026: The pussy willows near the BugLady’s lakeshore home are in bloom. Here’s a BOTW about pussy willows from late March of 2012 – a few new words and pictures. 2012: People get excited when pussy willows whisper the spring. The …
Howdy, BugFans, The Long-horned beetle family Cerambycidae is a large family that contains some spectacular beetles Elderberry Borer – Desmocerus palliatus – BugGuide.Net, Hippopsis lemniscata – BugGuide.Net, Pretty bug! – Plinthocoelium suaveolens – BugGuide.Net, Tim Burton’s Longhorn Beetle – Rosalia funebris …
Howdy, BugFans, This small spider is in the Sheetweb spider family Linyphiidae, which we have met before in the form of the Splendid Dwarf spider Bug o’the week – Splendid Dwarf Spider – Riveredge Nature Center. In some parts of …
