Choose your own adventure along a 1.5 mile loop, as activity stations and fun will be scattered about the land. Visit educators in costume and dive into hands-on experiences handling insects and examining animal bones!
08.22.22
Choose your own adventure along a 1.5 mile loop, as activity stations and fun will be scattered about the land. Visit educators in costume and dive into hands-on experiences handling insects and examining animal bones!
08.22.22
Choose your own adventure along a 1.5 mile loop, as activity stations and fun will be scattered about the land. Visit educators in costume and dive into hands-on experiences handling insects and examining animal bones!
08.22.22
Learn a bit about the Fermentorium brewery, the beers they are showcasing and discover the inspiration behind the pairings from the Chef and his team.
08.22.22
Join Riveredge for a scenic paddle on Little Cedar Lake at Ackerman’s Grove County Park to celebrate fall transitions and immerse yourself in stunning autumn colors. We’ll provide kayaks, paddles, and life jackets. No experience necessary!
08.22.22
The BugLady was surprised, as she trekked across the dunes at Kohler-Andrae State Park one steamy day in early July, to find this small, gangly beetle hanging out on some yarrow flowers. The cut of its jib was familiar https://bugguide.net/node/view/1020508/bgimage – the beetle’s legs reminded her of the clingy legs of a June bug. It turned out to be a Rose Chafer (Macrodactylus subspinosus), which is in the Scarab beetle family (Scarabaeidae) and in the same subfamily as the June beetle. It’s called “chafer” because it chafes at the tops of petals and leaves of rose plants (among others); “Macrodactylus” means “big fingers,” a nod to the long tarsal claws.
08.19.22
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 – 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.
08.16.22
A few days after she found an American Snout butterfly (of recent BOTW fame), the BugLady saw this small, pale, worn butterfly ahead of her on the ground. At first, she thought it might be a Summer Azure probing for minerals. Usually, they’re pretty uncooperative about having their pictures taken, so she was really happy that this “Blue” wasn’t camera shy. When she looked at it on the camera’s screen, she saw that it was not your run-of-the-mill Summer Azure.
It was a Marine Blue (Leptotes marina), a butterfly listed as “A very rare stray in Wisconsin.”
07.27.22
The BugLady was walking along the river when she saw an orange and brown butterfly fluttering around near a bare area. Even though she hadn’t seen one for a long time, she was pretty sure she knew what it was (having quickly eliminated from consideration the slightly larger and more vividly-colored Red Admiral, American Lady and Painted Lady). After that first encounter, she saw several more Snouts.
07.26.22