The End of Summer
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 …
Flies
Mid-summer Stories
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 – …
Pussy willow Pollinators
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 …
Deer Fly at Last
Howdy, BugFans, Way back in 2008, deer flies appeared briefly (two paragraphs) in a BOTW episode called “A few Flies,” sharing the spotlight with mosquitoes and horse flies. Amazingly, that’s the only time deer flies have appeared in BOTW, and …
Lightning Beetle Again and Again
Greetings, BugFans, 2025 – The BugLady has been seeing her first firefly around the 4th of July. She stands on the riprap, enjoying the fireworks shows launched by her neighbors and the more distant municipal displays while the fireflies fly around her, putting …
Bugs without Bios XX
Note: Links are to external sites. Howdy, BugFans, We’ll ease into 2025 with a few short pieces about bugs for whom there is very little info available — and yet they are lovely. They spend their lives doing their jobs …
Blue Blow Fly
Howdy BugFans, It’s gotten cold here in God’s Country – abruptly – with overnight lows in the high teens/low twenties, and daytime highs below freezing. The water in the birdbath froze solid for a few nights in a row before the …
Zebra Jumping Spider
Greetings, BugFans, The BugLady was moseying around her cottage, photographing doodlebug digs, when she spotted this very small (maybe ¼”) jumping spider with its prey. It was on a sunny, south-facing wall – right where it was supposed to be! Zebra …
Black Horse Fly Redo
Note: All but one of the links below go to external sites. Howdy, BugFans, The BugLady has gotten a few reports of these magnificent flies recently, so here’s an episode from 2018, with some new words and thoughts and links …
Summer Sights
(Note: Links below are to external sites. Click on thumbnail images to see larger versions.) Greetings, BugFans, The BugLady has been scouring the landscape and aiming her camera at anything that will sit still (and some that won’t). And without going too overboard …