{"id":12465,"date":"2021-09-22T11:19:20","date_gmt":"2021-09-22T16:19:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/?p=12465"},"modified":"2021-09-22T13:57:17","modified_gmt":"2021-09-22T18:57:17","slug":"late-summer-reflections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/bug-of-the-week\/late-summer-reflections\/","title":{"rendered":"Late Summer Reflections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><small>Note: All links below go to external sites.<\/small><\/p>\n<p>Howdy, BugFans,<\/p>\n<p>The BugLady has been out looking for bugs as the summer winds down; her dragonfly and butterfly surveys have been yielding fewer and fewer species these days. It has been an odd year, phenology-wise, with many species seeming to start late and wrap up early. Seasoned BugFans will not be surprised to hear that her camera has been drawn disproportionately to dragonflies and damselflies.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2021\/09\/ambush-bug21-5rz-300x215.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"215\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-12467\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2021\/09\/ambush-bug21-5rz-300x215.jpg 300w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2021\/09\/ambush-bug21-5rz.jpg 362w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\nAMBUSH BUG AND PREY \u2013 A dynamite little predator and a BugLady favorite.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2021\/09\/e-tailed-blue21-10rz-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-12471\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2021\/09\/e-tailed-blue21-10rz.jpg 300w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2021\/09\/e-tailed-blue21-10rz-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\nEASTERN TAILED-BLUE BUTTERFLIES have several generations per year, flying from May through September. The BugLady sees them along mowed trails until the first frosts, skittering just above the grass, looking for white clover to lay their eggs on (so set your mowers above the height of those clover flowers). The eggs soon hatch, and the larvae overwinter in the clover\u2019s seed pods.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2021\/09\/bluet-azure21-13rz-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-12469\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2021\/09\/bluet-azure21-13rz.jpg 300w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2021\/09\/bluet-azure21-13rz-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\nAZURE BLUET DAMSELFLY \u2013 Spilling over into late September, Familiar Bluets are the final bluets of the season, but the lushly-blue Azure Bluets are second-last. What a treat!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2021\/09\/hornet-bald-fcd21-1rz-300x214.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"214\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-12472\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2021\/09\/hornet-bald-fcd21-1rz-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2021\/09\/hornet-bald-fcd21-1rz.jpg 368w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\nBALD-FACED AERIAL YELLOWJACKETS aka BALD-FACED HORNETS \u2013 It\u2019s always exciting, as the leaves start to fall, to see how close we\u2019ve been walking to the hidden nests of <a href=\"https:\/\/bugguide.net\/node\/view\/1632691\/bgimage\">Bald-faced hornets<\/a>. Apparently, when the BugLady wasn\u2019t paying attention, Bald-faced hornets were renamed to more accurately reflect their taxonomy, and now they\u2019re called Bald-faced Aerial Yellowjackets (as opposed to the regular yellowjackets in the genus Vespula). People ask the BugLady if there are any insects that she\u2019s afraid of. She\u2019s not thrilled by ants (due to a misspent youth, during which she discovered that lederhosen offer no protection from an anthill), but these hornets\/aerial yellowjackets do give her pause, because if you stumble into a nest, they can advance <a href=\"https:\/\/bugguide.net\/node\/view\/1577524\">faster than you can retreat<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2021\/09\/katydid-sword-bearing-cone-hdd21-1rz-300x214.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"214\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-12473\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2021\/09\/katydid-sword-bearing-cone-hdd21-1rz-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2021\/09\/katydid-sword-bearing-cone-hdd21-1rz.jpg 368w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\nWhy did the SWORD-BEARING CONE-HEADED KATYDID cross the road?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2021\/09\/lestes-slender21-14arz-300x214.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"214\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-12474\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2021\/09\/lestes-slender21-14arz-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2021\/09\/lestes-slender21-14arz.jpg 368w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\nThe egg that this SLENDER SPREADWING DAMSELFLY is inserting into the bulrush will spend the winter there in diapause (suspended animation). In spring, it will hatch, and in the form of a \u201cpronymph,\u201d exit the stem and drop into the water to complete its development as a nymph\/naiad over the next few months.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2021\/09\/wasp-am-pelecinid21-1rz-300x214.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"214\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-12479\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2021\/09\/wasp-am-pelecinid21-1rz-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2021\/09\/wasp-am-pelecinid21-1rz.jpg 368w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\nAMERICAN PELECINID WASPS are about 2 \u00bd\u201d long, and it\u2019s mostly abdomen. She\u2019s harmless unless you\u2019re a June beetle grub, living happily out of sight underground looking for potatoes, in which case she will thread that long abdomen into the soil and deposit an egg on your exterior. She produces that egg via parthenogenesis. <a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/american-pelecinid-wasp\/\">What a fascinating insect!<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2021\/09\/meadowhawk-white-fcd21-7rz-300x214.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"214\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-12475\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2021\/09\/meadowhawk-white-fcd21-7rz-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2021\/09\/meadowhawk-white-fcd21-7rz.jpg 420w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\nWHITE-FACED MEADOWHAWK DRAGONFLY \u2013 There are about a half-dozen species of meadowhawks in the BugLady\u2019s neck of the woods \u2013 males are red; females and young males are generally amber; and they can be tricky to tell apart. One of the things that distinguishes meadowhawks is their sheer abundance &#8211; by mid-July, they start to outnumber the rest of the dragonflies. The BugLady did a dragonfly survey a few years ago in which she stopped counting meadowhawks at 150 and just checked \u201cabundant.\u201d Not this year. Not on the trails she walks.<\/p>\n<p>Meadowhawks have a risky reproductive strategy. Rather than deposit eggs in water or aquatic vegetation, meadowhawks, especially White-faced Meadowhawks, gamble. Flying in tandem near, but not over, the edge of the pond, the female lobs eggs down onto ground that she hopes will be inundated by fall rains or spring floods. But parts of Southeastern Wisconsin had a dry fall followed by a dry spring, and the water levels never rose, and the BugLady thinks that lots of eggs got stranded. She doesn\u2019t think she\u2019s seen even 30 meadowhawks since the beginning of July.<\/p>\n<p>What will happen? Maybe a wet fall will encourage the eggs of this year\u2019s meadowhawks, but it might take a few years for the population to build back in from the edges.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2021\/09\/bark-lice21-3rz-300x195.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"195\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-12468\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2021\/09\/bark-lice21-3rz-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2021\/09\/bark-lice21-3rz.jpg 411w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\nA small herd of BARK LICE appeared on the BugLady\u2019s porch rail in mid-August. Bark lice, aka tree cattle, graze harmlessly on fungus, algae, and other little stuff on tree trunks (and porch rails). Better than bleach.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2021\/09\/red-admiral21-4rz-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-12476\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2021\/09\/red-admiral21-4rz.jpg 300w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2021\/09\/red-admiral21-4rz-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\nRED ADMIRAL BUTTERFLIES (historically called Red Admirables) are everywhere &#8211; in temperate parts of North Africa, Europe, Asia, New Zealand, North and Central America, and the Caribbean. They can get away with it because the caterpillar food plants are nettles, which are also everywhere. Like Monarchs, they\u2019re migratory. They arrive from the South in May and produce a summer brood here. The new crop of Red Admirals heads south when the flowers fade, to overwinter there, and their offspring repopulate God\u2019s Country again in the spring. Their populations are (inexplicably) cyclical; a few years ago we had a monster year for Red Admirals, but the BugLady saw very few this summer.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2021\/09\/darner-cg21-8rz-300x214.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"214\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-12470\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2021\/09\/darner-cg21-8rz-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2021\/09\/darner-cg21-8rz.jpg 420w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2021\/09\/saddlebags-bl21-8rz-300x214.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"214\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-12477\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2021\/09\/saddlebags-bl21-8rz-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2021\/09\/saddlebags-bl21-8rz.jpg 420w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\nCOMMON GREEN DARNERS also migrate (but it\u2019s a little more complicated than that \u2013 Wisconsin has both a migratory and a non-migratory population of Common Green Darners). At 3\u201d long, these are big dragonflies. BugLady was surrounded by them as she stood on the hawk tower near the shore of Lake Michigan in early September \u2013 she was looking for raptors, but it was all darners and BLACK SADDLEBAGS, as far out as she could scan with her binoculars.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2021\/09\/stinkbug-br21-3rz-300x214.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"214\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-12478\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2021\/09\/stinkbug-br21-3rz-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2021\/09\/stinkbug-br21-3rz.jpg 368w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\nThe SPINED SOLDIER BUG is a stink bug in the genus Podisus. Though many stink bugs are plant feeders and some are crop pests, this soldier bug is cruising the flower tops looking for caterpillars and other juicy items.<\/p>\n<p>Autumnal equinox! <\/p>\n<p><em>The BugLady<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Note: All links below go to external sites. Howdy, BugFans, The BugLady has been out looking for bugs as the summer winds down; her dragonfly and butterfly surveys have been yielding fewer and fewer species these days. 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