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Bug o’the Week – The 12 Bugs of Christmas

Season’s Greetings, BugFans, As always, we pause to celebrate (while humming seasonal songs and drinking eggy, adult beverages), the Twelve Bugs of Christmas (plus one) – a baker’s dozen of […]

12.26.18

Bug o’the Week – European Earwig

Salutations, BugFans, People respond to insects intellectually, aesthetically, and viscerally.  Intellectually, earwigs are fascinating insects; viscerally – Ick!!  Earwigs are Stealth Insects, and it creeps the BugLady out when masses of earwigs scramble […]

12.05.18

Bug o’the Week – Red Cocklebur Weevil

Howdy, BugFans The BugLady (who loves finding weevils) found this one in Ohio, but it does live here in God’s Country and throughout eastern North America.  With about 83,000 species […]

11.28.18

Bug o’the Week – Buffalo Treehopper

Howdy, BugFans, Even though she’s never exactly sure which species she’s looking at, the BugLady is always tickled when she finds one of these pointy little bugs.  Here’s what you […]

11.14.18

Bug o’the Week – Two-lined Spittlebug

Greetings, BugFans, Isn’t this a spiffy little bug (and, yes, the word “bug” is correct, for a change, because it’s in the bug order Hemiptera)! First, the names: Two-lined spittlebugs […]

10.31.18

Bug o’the Week – Thyreodon atricolor Wasp

Howdy, BugFans, Thyreodon atricolor (no common name), one of the BugLady’s “Nemesis Bugs,” is a big, beautiful wasp that flies tantalizingly through dappled, woody edges, preceded by those fabulous, yellow antennae.  […]

10.25.18

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