{"id":10647,"date":"2019-06-19T09:22:19","date_gmt":"2019-06-19T14:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/?p=10647"},"modified":"2019-06-26T10:06:50","modified_gmt":"2019-06-26T15:06:50","slug":"closed-for-june-feast-or-famine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/bug-of-the-week\/closed-for-june-feast-or-famine\/","title":{"rendered":"Closed for June \u2013 Feast or Famine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Howdy, BugFans,<\/p>\n<p>Continuing with June\u2019s BOTW Lite, we have tales of plenty and of scarcity.<\/p>\n<p>In the first, insects are so plentiful that they show up on radar.  First <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/06\/06\/730254007\/spotted-a-swarm-of-ladybugs-so-huge-it-showed-up-on-national-weather-service-rad\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ladybugs<\/a>, and then there\u2019s a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/future_tense\/2014\/07\/24\/mayfly_hatching_in_wisconsin_shows_up_on_weather_radar.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">mayfly hatch along the Mississippi<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For the second, the BugLady has posted links in the past to a few articles about decreasing numbers of insects worldwide.  <a href=\"https:\/\/news.mongabay.com\/2019\/06\/the-great-insect-dying-the-tropics-in-trouble-and-some-hope\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">This article<\/a> is long (and annoyingly formatted) but very readable.<\/p>\n<p>[metaslider id=&#8221;10649&#8243;]&nbsp;<br \/>\nAbout the photos \u2013 the BugLady is supposed to be photographing insects this month so that she can resume BOTW with a fat folder of photos (alas, with 540 BOTWs under her belt, most of the bugs she meets are old friends).  Anyway, pelicans, not bugs, have been distracting her and she\u2019s having trouble getting stuff done. <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<em>The BugLady<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Continuing with June\u2019s BOTW Lite, we have tales of plenty and of scarcity.  In the first, insects are so plentiful that they show up on radar.  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