{"id":13147,"date":"2022-08-10T14:01:57","date_gmt":"2022-08-10T19:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/?p=13147"},"modified":"2024-12-26T14:43:50","modified_gmt":"2024-12-26T20:43:50","slug":"mid-summer-scenes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/bug-of-the-week\/mid-summer-scenes\/","title":{"rendered":"Mid-Summer Scenes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"default_cursor_cs\"><span data-ogsb=\"\">Greetings, BugFans,<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"default_cursor_cs\">Summer has reached its half-way point, and the BugLady has been recording the changing of the guard. The adult lives of most insects are brief \u2013 four to six weeks for many, and considerably less for some. Bluet damselflies are fading, but meadowhawk dragonflies are taking the stage. Little Wood Satyr butterflies are hard to find, but Common wood nymphs now flit through the fields. You get the picture. Here are some bugs that the BugLady found in the first half of summer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"aligncenter uwm-c-img--center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"214\" src=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2022\/08\/clubtail-arrow22-1b-300x214.jpg\" alt=\"Bug on a plant.\" class=\"wp-image-13149\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2022\/08\/clubtail-arrow22-1b-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2022\/08\/clubtail-arrow22-1b-768x548.jpg 768w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2022\/08\/clubtail-arrow22-1b.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"aligncenter uwm-c-img--center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"214\" src=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2022\/08\/clubtail-arrow22-4rz-300x214.jpg\" alt=\"Bug with wings on plant.\" class=\"wp-image-13157\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2022\/08\/clubtail-arrow22-4rz-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2022\/08\/clubtail-arrow22-4rz-768x548.jpg 768w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2022\/08\/clubtail-arrow22-4rz.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"aligncenter uwm-c-img--center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"214\" src=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2022\/08\/clubtail-arrow22-9rz-300x214.jpg\" alt=\"Bug with open wings on plant.\" class=\"wp-image-13160\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2022\/08\/clubtail-arrow22-9rz-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2022\/08\/clubtail-arrow22-9rz-768x548.jpg 768w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2022\/08\/clubtail-arrow22-9rz.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>ARROW CLUBTAIL: In early July, the BugLady came across this just-emerged dragonfly sitting on a stalk in the Milwaukee River. She photographed it for half an hour as it lengthened and strengthened and spread its wings and grew its abdomen. She guarded it from marauding geese and grackles. And she watched as it took its maiden voyage, eight feet straight up and true &#8211; into the beak of a swooping Cedar Waxwing. She may have used a few bad words.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"aligncenter uwm-c-img--center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"214\" src=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2022\/08\/beetle-japanese22-1rz-300x214.jpg\" alt=\"Bug on flower.\" class=\"wp-image-13161\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2022\/08\/beetle-japanese22-1rz-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2022\/08\/beetle-japanese22-1rz-768x548.jpg 768w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2022\/08\/beetle-japanese22-1rz.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>JAPANESE BEETLE: Precarious as this bundle of beetles looked, it kept its shape as it fell off and into the grasses. In order to jump-start her love life, a female Japanese beetle may use \u201ccome hither\u201d pheromones, but this aggregation of beetles was probably initiated (inadvertently) by the plant itself. Research suggests that a female Japanese beetle chewed on a leaf, and the leaf gave off signature chemicals (OK &#8211; feeding-induced plant volatiles), and that instead of repelling the beetles, the scent attracted more beetles, both male and female, to feed. And, since all those guys and gals are in the same neighborhood\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"aligncenter uwm-c-img--center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" src=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2022\/08\/mayfly-exuviae-MKE-River-1bsm-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Bugs on leaves.\" class=\"wp-image-13162\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2022\/08\/mayfly-exuviae-MKE-River-1bsm-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2022\/08\/mayfly-exuviae-MKE-River-1bsm.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>MAYFLY MOLT: BugFan Freda sent this amazing \u201cWhat-is-it?\u201d picture recently, taken from a canoe on the Milwaukee river. Mayflies (called \u201clake flies\u201d regionally) emerge from their watery cradles by the googol. Their lives are brief, averaging only three days (not coincidentally, the name of the mayfly order is Ephemeroptera).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mayflies are the only insects that shed their skins after they reach the winged adult stage (silverfish shed as adults, too, but they\u2019re spindle-shaped and wingless). The <a href=\"https:\/\/bugguide.net\/node\/view\/517056\/bgimage\">mature mayfly naiad <i class=\"fa fa-external-link\"><\/i><\/a> crawls out onto a plant or rock and sheds its final skin (exuvia), emerging as a form called a subimago (or a \u201cdun\u201d if you\u2019re a fly fisherman) that is cloudy-winged, dull in color, weak-flying, and not ready to reproduce. The sub-imago rests (often overnight) and then sheds again, this time into a mature adult\/imago with shiny wings (a \u201cspinner\u201d to fishermen). Here\u2019s a <a href=\"https:\/\/bugguide.net\/node\/view\/933725\/bgimage\">typical adult\/imago<i class=\"fa fa-external-link\"><\/i><\/a>. No \u2013 scientists do not know how this pre-adult stage benefits the mayflies \u2013 lots of insect groups apparently has a subimago stage in ancient times, and most have dropped it from their repertory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Freda\u2019s picture shows the exuviae of lots of sub-imagoes \u2013 it must have been an amazing sight to see! Scroll down this series of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.troutnut.com\/article\/10\/pictures-of-mayfly-dun-molting-to-spinner\">pictures <i class=\"fa fa-external-link\"><\/i><\/a> of that final shed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"aligncenter uwm-c-img--center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2022\/08\/beetle-dogbane-lf22-4rz-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Bug on a flower.\" class=\"wp-image-13151\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>DOGBANE LEAF BEETLE: Its fabulous, shimmering exterior is all done with mirrors (complex nanoarchitecture). Light is bent when it hits small, randomly-tilted plates that sit between the pigment layer and the top layer of the beetle\u2019s cuticle, and the beetle\u2019s color changes depending on the angle of the eye of the beholder. What good is that glow? Rather than being an aid in courtship or a warning of the beetle\u2019s toxicity (and this particular beetle is, but not all iridescent insects are), this fiery iridescence actually camouflages it. To test the hypothesis, researchers disguised meal worms with beetle elytra (the hard outer wings) &#8211; some shiny and some not \u2013 and then hid them. Birds found and ate 85% of the \u201cdull-winged meal worms,\u201d but only 60% of the \u201ciridescent meal worms,\u201d and the scientists themselves found it difficult to locate the shiny ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"aligncenter uwm-c-img--center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2022\/08\/bluet-stream-mayfly22-3rz-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Bug attacking another bug.\" class=\"wp-image-13163\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2022\/08\/bluet-stream-mayfly22-3rz-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2022\/08\/bluet-stream-mayfly22-3rz-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2022\/08\/bluet-stream-mayfly22-3rz-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2022\/08\/bluet-stream-mayfly22-3rz.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>STREAM BLUET AND MAYFLY: In order to make it to adulthood, a mayfly naiad must avoid being eaten by fish and a variety of insects during its aquatic stage, and by fish, birds, fishing spiders, frogs, and other predators as it completes both of its molts. When it takes to the air, more predators await. This mayfly became lunch for a Stream Bluet damselfly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"aligncenter uwm-c-img--center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"214\" src=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2022\/08\/doodlebug22-300x214.jpg\" alt=\"Doodlebug on the dunes.\" class=\"wp-image-13164\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2022\/08\/doodlebug22-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2022\/08\/doodlebug22-768x548.jpg 768w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2022\/08\/doodlebug22.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>DOODLEBUG: The BugLady found this doodlebug on the dunes at Kohler-Andrae State Park in mid-July, plying its trade. She looked into lots of inverted, sandy cones before she found one that held prey &#8211; in this case, a small spider. The doodlebug will grow up to be an <a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/bug-of-the-week\/spotless-antlion\/\">antlion <i class=\"fa fa-external-link\"><\/i><\/a>. For an account of the life of a doodlebug, see <a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/bug-of-the-week\/spotless-antlion\/\">this former post<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"aligncenter uwm-c-img--center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"214\" src=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2022\/08\/sawfly22-3rz-300x214.jpg\" alt=\"Wasp on flowers.\" class=\"wp-image-13165\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2022\/08\/sawfly22-3rz-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2022\/08\/sawfly22-3rz-768x548.jpg 768w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2022\/08\/sawfly22-3rz.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>SAWFLY: Sawflies are not flies, but are primitive wasps with no stingers (as she did when she wrote her <a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/bug-of-the-week\/sawfly\/\">first episode about sawflies<\/a> in 2009, the BugLady recommends reading the sawfly chapter in David W. Stokes\u2019 excellent\u00a0<u data-ogsb=\"\">A Guide to Observing Insect Lives<\/u>). Sawfly larvae look a lot like butterfly and moth caterpillars, but there\u2019s a difference in the arrangement and types of legs. This beauty just might be the <a href=\"https:\/\/bugguide.net\/node\/view\/826616\/bgimage\">Poison ivy sawfly (<i data-ogsb=\"\">Arge humeralis<\/i>) <i class=\"fa fa-external-link\"><\/i><\/a>, whose pretty cute offspring, the BugLady is going to have to keep a cautious eye out for. \u201cSawfly\u201d because the female uses a saw-like structure at the end of her abdomen to cut slots in vegetation to lay her eggs in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"aligncenter uwm-c-img--center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"214\" src=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2022\/08\/swallowtail-bl-cat22-1rz-300x214.jpg\" alt=\"Caterpillar on plant.\" class=\"wp-image-13166\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2022\/08\/swallowtail-bl-cat22-1rz-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2022\/08\/swallowtail-bl-cat22-1rz-768x548.jpg 768w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2022\/08\/swallowtail-bl-cat22-1rz.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>BLACK SWALLOWTAIL CATERPILLAR: While the BugLady was photographing the sawfly, she noticed a prickly head among the Queen Anne\u2019s lace florets, so she bent the stem sideways to see what it was. There was a cute little jumping spider under there, too, which she hoped did not have designs on the caterpillar. Black Swallowtails lay their eggs on plants in the carrot family, and most gardeners who plant dill are familiar with them (and, the BugLady hopes, are generous enough to share).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"aligncenter uwm-c-img--center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2022\/08\/wasp-mud-dauber-b22-2brz-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Bug on flowers.\" class=\"wp-image-13167\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2022\/08\/wasp-mud-dauber-b22-2brz-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2022\/08\/wasp-mud-dauber-b22-2brz-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2022\/08\/wasp-mud-dauber-b22-2brz-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2022\/08\/wasp-mud-dauber-b22-2brz.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>BLUE MUD DAUBERS: They are all over the Queen Anne\u2019s lace these days. Adults cruise the flower tops, sipping nectar and looking for spiders to cache in the egg chambers of their offspring, who will grow up on protein but eschew it as adults. Sometimes the wasps pick spiders right off of their webs, and they especially like to collect <a href=\"https:\/\/bugguide.net\/node\/view\/1876965\/bgimage\">Black widow spiders <i class=\"fa fa-external-link\"><\/i><\/a> (which are here in God\u2019s Country but are rare). They grab spiders with their <a href=\"https:\/\/bugguide.net\/node\/view\/1268654\/bgimage\">mandibles <i class=\"fa fa-external-link\"><\/i><\/a> <span data-ogsb=\"\"> and paralyze them with a sting, but they don\u2019t bite people, and you have to rough one up considerably before she\u2019ll sting you.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"aligncenter uwm-c-img--center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"214\" src=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2022\/08\/EAB22-1rz-300x214.jpg\" alt=\"Emerald ash borer under tree.\" class=\"wp-image-13168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2022\/08\/EAB22-1rz-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2022\/08\/EAB22-1rz-768x548.jpg 768w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2022\/08\/EAB22-1rz.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>EMERALD ASH BORER: The BugLady loves ash trees, but these days, the landscape is littered with their skeletons. The first Emerald ash borer was detected in Wisconsin in Ozaukee County during the summer of 2008, though the EABs had undoubtedly been around for a few years before that. The picture shows an ash that is fighting for its life, a battle that it will not win. The top of this ash is dead, because the EAB larvae\u2019s tunnels (galleries) just below the bark interfere with the flow of nutrients between the crown of the tree and its roots. The stressed tree responds by growing a bunch of shoots (called epicormic sprouts) from dormant buds in the bark of the trunk. The leafy sprouts, which are below the EAB damage, will allow the tree to photosynthesize \u2013 for a while. Read about <a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/bug-of-the-week\/emerald-ash-borer-redux-family-buprestidae\/\">EABs<\/a> in a previous BOTW. EABs are, undeniably, beautiful beetles: <a href=\"https:\/\/bugguide.net\/node\/view\/1770902\/bgimage\">[1] <i class=\"fa fa-external-link\"><\/i><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/bugguide.net\/node\/view\/1233730\/bgimage\">[2] <i class=\"fa fa-external-link\"><\/i><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/bugguide.net\/node\/view\/938332\/bgimage\">[3] <i class=\"fa fa-external-link\"><\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"aligncenter uwm-c-img--center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"214\" src=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2022\/08\/spider-6-spt-fishing22-6rz-300x214.jpg\" alt=\"Spider on water lily leaf.\" class=\"wp-image-13171\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2022\/08\/spider-6-spt-fishing22-6rz-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2022\/08\/spider-6-spt-fishing22-6rz-768x548.jpg 768w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2022\/08\/spider-6-spt-fishing22-6rz.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>SIX-SPOTTED FISHING SPIDER: Moving from a \u201csolid\u201d water lily leaf to a liquid substrate is no trick at all for a Six-spotted Fishing spider (the six spots that give it its name are on its underside) &#8211; in fact, it has more moves on the water than it does on dry land. It can walk, run, sail, or skate over the surface film and can dive under it, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"aligncenter uwm-c-img--center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"214\" src=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2022\/08\/swallowtail-gnt22-19rz-300x214.jpg\" alt=\"Butterfly on flower.\" class=\"wp-image-13172\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2022\/08\/swallowtail-gnt22-19rz-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2022\/08\/swallowtail-gnt22-19rz-768x548.jpg 768w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2022\/08\/swallowtail-gnt22-19rz.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>GIANT SWALLOWTAIL: If there\u2019s anything more stunning than a couple of Giant Swallowtails dancing in the air over purple coneflowers, the BugLady doesn\u2019t know what it is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><i data-ogsb=\"\">The BugLady<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greetings, BugFans, Summer has reached its half-way point, and the BugLady has been recording the changing of the guard. 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