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
Greetings, BugFans, The BugLady was on a wetland walk years ago when someone asked the leader “Why do pitcher plants grow here?” His answer, simple and elegant, “Because they can.” […]
09.29.21
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. It […]
09.22.21
Greetings BugFans, The BugLady had a visitor at her front door the other day – a Two-spotted tree cricket. When they think of tree crickets, most people picture a delicate, […]
09.15.21