Greetings, BugFans,
It’s a bird that evokes strong feelings in its admirers and detractors. In winter, its beautiful blue, black and white colors perk up our otherwise drab landscapes.
01.12.22
Salutations, BugFans, Here we are, in the trough between Christmas and New Year’s. The interminable Christmas movies have been put to bed (YAY!), and reruns rule. Here, too.
01.06.22
Season’s Greetings, BugFans, When the BugLady initiated this annual tradition in 2012 – showing pictures of bugs she had photographed but whom (objective case) she had already written about (OK – about whom she had already written) – she was already in trouble.
01.06.22
Howdy, BugFans, Hairstreaks are spiffy little butterflies that are named for the hair-like markings found on their underwings. Most have thin, twin tails (sometimes two pairs of tails) on the […]
12.15.21
Howdy BugFans, Full disclosure: the BugLady’s copy of Bob Dubois’s Damselflies of the North Woods (aka The Bible) automatically falls open to the page that shows the rear ends of the male […]
12.08.21
Greetings, BugFans, Years ago, the BugLady photographed a Giant Leopard moth https://bugguide.net/node/view/1967163/bgimage. It was a tough shot – the moth was tucked up under the eaves of a house. It’s – […]
11.19.21
Howdy, BugFans, The BugLady lives in a log cottage that’s rough cedar on the inside (think splinters), so when, one night, this Carpenter ant queen dropped down from the ceiling […]
11.10.21
Howdy, BugFans, Hawks are still flying; bugs, not so much. Lots of grasshoppers along the trail, and a variety of flies and some sweat bees on the late-blooming dandelions (and […]
11.03.21
Howdy, BugFans, The BugLady has been out counting migrating raptors. Here’s a rerun of an episode about an amazing beetle that the BugLady encountered in the late spring of 2014. […]
10.15.21
Greetings, BugFans, The BugLady stood on a boardwalk in a wetland for about half an hour trying to photograph this amazing wasp as it dodged through thickets of sedges, ferns, […]
10.06.21