Bug o’the Week – Leaf Miners
Greetings, BugFans, “There’s never a leaf nor a blade too mean to be some happy creature’s palace.” J. R. Lowell First of all, with apologies to botanists everywhere, here’s a quick […]
04.11.18
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04.11.18
Bug o’the Week – Bugs without Bios XII
Greetings, BugFans, The BugLady is feeling a little cranky. It’s snowing as she’s writing this – 3” to 5” are expected, and the temperatures predicted for the next week mean that […]
04.04.18
Bug o’the Week – Sedge Sprite Redux
Howdy, BugFans, Dragonfly season can’t come soon enough. This BOTW is a renovation of a BOTW from five years ago – some new thoughts, all new pictures. Apologies – life is busy. […]
03.28.18
Bug of the Week – Monarch Butterfly, Spring 2018
Greetings, BugFans, It’s hard for us to wrap our minds around how populations of an organism that occurs by the millions (like the horseshoe crab, of recent BOTW fame) could […]
03.21.18
Bug o’the Week – Bugs in the News IV
Salutations, BugFans, Ever since the BugLady started her “Bugs in the News” sub-series, alert BugFans have been sending links to articles they’ve come across. Thanks, BugFans! Alas, to view a few of […]
03.14.18
Bug o’the Week – And Now for Something a Little Different III – Timberdoodle
Howdy, BugFans, This episode has been adapted from the Spring, 2010 issue of the BogHaunter, the newsletter of the Friends of the Cedarburg Bog; it was written by the BugLady, wearing […]
03.07.18
Bug o’the Week – Horseshoe Crab Update
Howdy BugFans, Back in 2011, the BugLady wrote about a spectacular arthropod called the Horseshoe crab that pre-dates insects by maybe 100,000,000 years. Despite the fact that they occur by the […]
02.28.18
Bug o’the Week – Galls VI
Salutations, BugFans, As veteran BugFans can attest, the BugLady is intrigued by galls. How many kinds are there? To quote from the first BOTW on galls (October, 2009) “Lawlor, in Discovering Nature Close […]
02.21.18
Bug o’the Week – Palmodes dimidiatus (wasp)
Greetings, BugFans, Someday, the BugLady will write a book about trying to pry information about this wasp from the ether (once she figured out that it isn’t a Sphex or a Podalonia); it will […]
02.07.18
Bug o’the Week – Epiblema (moth) Trifecta
Howdy, BugFans, Vocabulary word for the day – reservoir. Epiblemas are micromoths, which is a handy but unscientific grouping that has members across several families (and it’s a genus name that is […]
01.31.18