Howdy, BugFans, The BugLady has enjoyed her vacation and is ready to dive back into writing original BOTWS (until she gets another body part replaced). Here鈥檚 a small moth, to celebrate National Moth Week. BugFan Freda sent a shot of …
Salutations, BugFans, 2025聽鈥� The BugLady confesses that she rarely finds these Giant silk moths, either as adults or as caterpillars.聽So rarely that some of these pictures are scanned slides/transparencies, from the olden days.聽In the years since this episode was posted, …
Greetings, BugFans, Long-time BugFans know that the BugLady is infatuated with the lovely, sedentary Flower Crab spiders (family Thomisidae) that she photographs throughout the summer, and she recently posted a BOTW about the chunkier Ground crab spiders (also Thomisidae). Running crab spiders, …
Greetings, BugFans, Leaf miners have been mentioned in these pages before 鈥� even the Aspen leaf miner (Phyllocnistis populiella) has appeared briefly.聽When she did a little more research, the BugLady was ecstatic to discover that Aspen leaf miners have an …
Howdy, BugFans, This is a Good-News-Bad News-Stay-Tuned kind of story. But first, a little background.聽Besides being large and lovely, Monarch butterflies, of course, catch our fancy because of the death-defying migrations they undertake twice a year.聽Migrations – fueled by flowers …
Note: All links are to an external site. Greetings, BugFans, Last year, BugFan Nancy told the BugLady that she was making a quilt with a dragonfly motif, and asked what colors dragonflies came in.聽All of them. The BugLady sent her …
Howdy, BugFans, Homage: 鈥渟omething that someone does or says in order to show respect or admiration.鈥� (Macmillan). In this case, it鈥檚 a grudging tip of the hat 鈥� we may not appreciate them, but we acknowledge that they are very …
