  {"id":11195,"date":"2020-01-02T09:58:01","date_gmt":"2020-01-02T15:58:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/?p=11195"},"modified":"2024-08-22T17:26:34","modified_gmt":"2024-08-22T22:26:34","slug":"the-twelve-bugs-of-christmas-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/bug-of-the-week\/the-twelve-bugs-of-christmas-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"The Twelve Bugs of Christmas 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Season\u2019s Greetings, BugFans,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let\u2019s celebrate the (almost bugless) Season with a dozen bugs that were photographed this year. Down through the centuries, various regional versions of the classic Christmas carol have included hares a-running, ducks quacking, badgers baiting, bulls a-roaring, biting cows, bears a-beating, cocks a-crowing, asses racing, starlings, plovers, goldspinks (goldfinches), sides of meat, ponies, deer, stalks of corn, cheese, windmills, and an Arabian Baboon. Never any bugs, though, so it\u2019s up to us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The BugLady wondered (innocently) if this BUMBLE BEE TRIO was sharing body heat one afternoon in mid-October, but BugFan Thelma explained the facts of life. Even though the air was cool and their season was winding down, the two, smaller male bees still had hopes of a final tryst. We can all help track the range of bumble bees in Wisconsin by sending our bumble bee pictures, ID\u2019d or not, <a href=\"http:\/\/wiatri.net\/inventory\/bbb\/\">by clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"aligncenter uwm-c-img--center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2020\/01\/wh-slant-line-moth19-1rz.jpg\" alt=\"White Slant-line Moth\" class=\"wp-image-11207\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2020\/01\/wh-slant-line-moth19-1rz.jpg 500w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2020\/01\/wh-slant-line-moth19-1rz-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2020\/01\/wh-slant-line-moth19-1rz-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>WHITE SLANT-LINE MOTH &#8211; Moccasin-flowers\/Pink lady\u2019s-slipper orchids are typically pollinated by native bumble bees that, lured to the flower by color and odor, push their way into a slit in the slipper, hoping (in vain) for a tasty reward. The moth may be biting off more than it can chew.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"aligncenter uwm-c-img--center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2020\/01\/golden-bckd-snipe-fly19-3rz.jpg\" alt=\"Golden-blacked Snipe Fly\" class=\"wp-image-11201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2020\/01\/golden-bckd-snipe-fly19-3rz.jpg 500w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2020\/01\/golden-bckd-snipe-fly19-3rz-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2020\/01\/golden-bckd-snipe-fly19-3rz-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>GOLD-BACKED SNIPE FLY &#8211; Is there a more elegant fly than this one?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"aligncenter uwm-c-img--center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2020\/01\/nurseryweb-spider19-2rz.jpg\" alt=\"Nursery web spider\" class=\"wp-image-11203\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2020\/01\/nurseryweb-spider19-2rz.jpg 700w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2020\/01\/nurseryweb-spider19-2rz-300x214.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>NURSERY WEB SPIDER on tiptoe. The Nursery web spider family (<em>Pisauridae<\/em>) includes the fishing spiders, but not all Pisaurids hang around the water\u2019s edge (the BugLady once found a nursery web spider in her rhubarb). They don\u2019t spin trap webs; they find prey as they move across the landscape. Their name comes from the shelters females make (and guard) for their egg cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"aligncenter uwm-c-img--center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2020\/01\/6-spotted-tiger19-1rz.jpg\" alt=\"Six-Spotted Tiger Beetle\" class=\"wp-image-11196\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2020\/01\/6-spotted-tiger19-1rz.jpg 700w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2020\/01\/6-spotted-tiger19-1rz-300x214.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The BugLady stalks SIX-SPOTTED TIGER BEETLES \u2013 small, emerald sparks on dirt trails &#8211; as they stalk spiders and small insects. Some beetles don\u2019t get the memo; there are two, four, six, and eight-spotted SSTBs. The <em>Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Insects and Spiders<\/em> says that they fly ahead on the trail and then turn to face us, but the BugLady has an awful lot of pictures of the rear ends of SSTBs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"aligncenter uwm-c-img--center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2020\/01\/forktail-e-lestes19-3rz.jpg\" alt=\"Forktail &amp; Lestes\" class=\"wp-image-11200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2020\/01\/forktail-e-lestes19-3rz.jpg 500w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2020\/01\/forktail-e-lestes19-3rz-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2020\/01\/forktail-e-lestes19-3rz-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>FORKTAIL AND LESTES \u2013 the first Spreadwing (<em>Lestes<\/em>) damselfly that the BugLady saw this spring was a Slender Spreadwing dangling in the clutches of a mature female Eastern Forktail (the slate-blue damsel on the right). Forktails are tough &#8211; a few days later, the BugLady photographed another forktail holding a Powdered Dancer, also larger than she was.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"aligncenter uwm-c-img--center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2020\/01\/robber-Asilus-sericeus19-1rz.jpg\" alt=\"Robber Fly\" class=\"wp-image-11204\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2020\/01\/robber-Asilus-sericeus19-1rz.jpg 700w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2020\/01\/robber-Asilus-sericeus19-1rz-300x214.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>ROBBER FLY &#8211; Isn\u2019t she spectacular!! A fly this spectacular should really have a common name, but she doesn\u2019t (although one photographer calls her an Orange robber fly). She\u2019s<em> Asilus sericeus<\/em>, an inch long robber fly that\u2019s found in the eastern half of the country, often dining on butterflies and moths that have come in to nectar on flowers. The BugLady is always blown away by those long, angular legs. Starting soon \u2013 a three-year Citizen Science project designed to find out more about the distribution of robber fly species in Wisconsin. The BugLady will post more info later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"aligncenter uwm-c-img--center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2020\/01\/meloe-beetle19-2rz.jpg\" alt=\"Meloe Beetle\" class=\"wp-image-11202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2020\/01\/meloe-beetle19-2rz.jpg 700w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2020\/01\/meloe-beetle19-2rz-300x214.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Every fall the BugLady gets questions about the large, flightless, slow-moving MELOE BEETLE, a.k.a. Oil beetle or Short-winged Blister Beetle. Look but don\u2019t touch \u2013 they\u2019re named \u201cblister beetle\u201d for a reason. When they\u2019re alarmed, Meloe beetles flop over and play dead, but they also ooze caustic stuff from their leg joints, so don\u2019t touch the \u201cdead\u201d ones, either.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"aligncenter uwm-c-img--center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2020\/01\/chr-c-wood-nymph19-2rz.jpg\" alt=\"Common Wood Nymph\" class=\"wp-image-11198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2020\/01\/chr-c-wood-nymph19-2rz.jpg 500w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2020\/01\/chr-c-wood-nymph19-2rz-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2020\/01\/chr-c-wood-nymph19-2rz-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>COMMON WOOD NYMPHS emerge in early July and fly around the grasslands into September. We can\u2019t appreciate their nuanced coloration as they pass (there\u2019s some variation <a href=\"https:\/\/bugguide.net\/node\/view\/1551172\/bgimage\">by clicking here<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/bugguide.net\/node\/view\/1173370\/bgimage\">clicking here<\/a>), but they really are monochromatic marvels, painted with shadow and texture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"aligncenter uwm-c-img--center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2020\/01\/scorpionfly19-6rz.jpg\" alt=\"Scorpionfly\" class=\"wp-image-11205\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2020\/01\/scorpionfly19-6rz.jpg 700w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2020\/01\/scorpionfly19-6rz-300x214.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>SCORPIONFLIES are not in the fly order <em>Diptera<\/em> but in the order <em>Mecoptera<\/em> and the family <em>Panorpidae<\/em>. The BugLady often finds these jumpy little insects on leaves that have bird poop on them \u2013 they are mostly scavengers that feed on droppings and dead\/dying animal matter (they\u2019ll even rob spider webs) as well as pollen and nectar. This is a CSI bug \u2013 they will visit corpses, and their presence indicates that the body is fresh. Both ends are interesting \u2013 the face has a conspicuous elongation called a rostrum, and although the males\u2019 reproductive structures look <a href=\"https:\/\/bugguide.net\/node\/view\/1495212\/bgimage\">like a scorpion\u2019s tail<\/a>, they\u2019re harmless.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"aligncenter uwm-c-img--center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2020\/01\/e-amberwing19-5rz.jpg\" alt=\"Eastern Amberwing\" class=\"wp-image-11199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2020\/01\/e-amberwing19-5rz.jpg 700w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2020\/01\/e-amberwing19-5rz-300x214.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>At just under an inch in length, EASTERN AMBERWINGS are the smallest commonly-occurring dragonfly in Wisconsin (there are scattered populations of the even-smaller Elfin Skimmer, <a href=\"http:\/\/wiatri.net\/inventory\/odonata\/SpeciesAccounts\/SpeciesDetail.cfm?TaxaID=156\">click here to learn more<\/a>). Many of our damselflies are longer, but they are far slimmer than the amberwing. The BugLady finds it extraordinarily easy to take out-of-focus shots of amberwings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"aligncenter uwm-c-img--center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2020\/01\/stinkbug-grn19-11rz.jpg\" alt=\"Green Stinkbug\" class=\"wp-image-11206\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2020\/01\/stinkbug-grn19-11rz.jpg 500w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2020\/01\/stinkbug-grn19-11rz-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2020\/01\/stinkbug-grn19-11rz-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>GREEN STINK BUG: Note that the BugLady said that this is an \u201calmost bugless\u201d season. Every year at about this time, the BugLady is visited by some insect, usually a mosquito, that should have been dead weeks ago. Oh, the BugLady gets that the small, cold-tolerant <em>Chironomid<\/em> midges will dance in the air deep into fall, but it\u2019s been snowy and extra-cold around here, folks, since the beginning of November (a week ago, right after the BugLady\u2019s alarm went off, the TV weather guy announced that it was 3 degrees out. She reacted appropriately). So where had this Green stink bug, photographed outside the front door on November 27, been hanging out? Or the spectacular Herald moth (<a href=\"https:\/\/bugguide.net\/node\/view\/1614972\/bgimage\">click here to learn more<\/a>) that landed near her computer on November 23? Or the crane fly that she found on December 12 in the sink? Or the spider whose web descended from the conifers to her windshield wiper on the balmy (37 degree) morning of December 21? A Christmas Mystery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Best Wishes for the New Year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The BugLady<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let\u2019s celebrate the (almost bugless) Season with a dozen bugs that were photographed this year. Down through the centuries, various regional versions of the classic Christmas carol have included hares a-running, ducks quacking, badgers baiting, bulls a-roaring, biting cows, bears a-beating, cocks a-crowing, asses racing, starlings, plovers, goldspinks (goldfinches), sides of meat, ponies, deer, stalks of corn, cheese, windmills, and an Arabian Baboon. 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