Caddisfly revisited
Greetings, BugFans, The BugLady is suffering from the February Doldrums in January – this is a massaged version of a BOTW that was originally posted in 2009, with some new words and new pictures. “What’s in a name? A rose by …
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Cereal bug
Note: All links leave to external sites. Greetings, BugFans, The BugLady loves finding an insect she’s never seen before. When she saw it walking along a cordwalk (boardwalk on sand) in the dunes at Kohler-Andrae State Park, she knew that this …
Moths – Four Very Short Stories
Note: All links leave to external site. Greetings, BugFans, Everybody likes butterflies (the BugLady would not like to meet the person who dislikes butterflies). But, in the order Lepidoptera, butterflies are just the tip of the iceberg – the heavy …
Saddleback Caterpillar – A Snowbird Special
Note: Most links leave to external sites. Greetings, BugFans, Today’s bug, the extraordinary-looking and aptly-named Saddle-backed caterpillar, is the 5th in our on-going Snowbird Special series about bugs you might see if you decide to tear yourself away from God’s Country …
Parnassia Miner Bee – a Bee and its Flower
Note: Most links leave to external sites. Howdy, BugFans, A while back, BugFan Matt asked the BugLady if she had ever photographed a small bee on a Grass-of-Parnassus flower. Grass-of-Parnassus (not really a grass) is one of her favorite flowers (despite …
Masked Hunter redo
Note: All links leave to external sites. Salutations, BugFans, It’s the trough between Christmas and New Year’s – nothing but reruns. This one, from 2009, has a few new words and pictures. Party on! Occasionally, one of the BugLady’s wee dust bunnies …
The 12 (or 13) Bugs of Christmas
Note: All links leave to external sites. Greetings of the Season, BugFans, (13 bugs, because once she’s got her selection down to 13, the BugLady just can’t cut one more!) A Cheery Thought for the Holidays, the average home contains …
Black Zale Moth
Note: Most links leave to external sites. Greetings, BugFans, Zale moths (thank goodness) are not small and grayish (the moth equivalent of LBJ’s – “little brown jobs” – the birding acronym for the sparrow group), and thus they are not destined to languish …
Sand-loving Bembidion beetle
Note: All links leave to external sites. Greetings, BugFans, The Ground beetle family (Carabidae) contains some large and spectacular species [ 1, 2, 3 ] (including the Tiger beetles), but today’s beetle is neither large nor flashy. It’s pretty fast, though. With 2,440 species …
Jumping Bristletail Retread
Note: All links leave to external sites. Salutations, BugFans, The BugLady has been busy – here’s a slightly-spruced-up version of an episode that she posted 10 years ago. The Jumping bristletail that inspired it remains the only one she’s ever seen. …