  {"id":16630,"date":"2025-12-03T09:39:39","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T15:39:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/?p=16630"},"modified":"2025-12-03T09:41:21","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T15:41:21","slug":"goldenrod-watch-redux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/bug-of-the-week\/goldenrod-watch-redux\/","title":{"rendered":"Goldenrod Watch redux"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Howdy, BugFans,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s the start of December \u2013 and of meteorological winter \u2013 and it\u2019s cold out, and the BugLady is still wondering what, exactly, happened to August.&nbsp;Here\u2019s a little slice of August, from 15 years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The BugLady\u2019s advice for the day is: Find yourselves a big clump of goldenrod and start looking.&nbsp;Bring your camera.&nbsp;Bring a lawn chair.&nbsp;Bring Eaton &amp; Kaufman\u2019s&nbsp;Field Guide to Insects of North America&nbsp;and&nbsp;The Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Insects and Spiders&nbsp;by Lorus and Marjory Milne so you can find out what you\u2019re looking at.&nbsp;Bring Donald W. Stokes\u2019 excellent&nbsp;A Guide to Observing Insect Lives&nbsp;so you can find out what they\u2019re doing there. You have time \u2013 one inscrutable species of goldenrod follows the next, from mid-August through the end of September (botanist Asa Gray once said that the 12 pages devoted to goldenrod taxonomy were the most boring in his book). Each critter has its own story, and it is in understanding the small stories that we start to get a handle on the big picture.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Worried about pain?&nbsp;The BugLady has been photographing insects for 35 years, and she really, really gets in bugs\u2019 faces, but she has never been bitten or stung in the process (well, except for some peripheral ants, but ants have been lying in wait for the BugLady all of her life).&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Worried about allergies? The pollen of goldenrod is large and is&nbsp;<em>not<\/em>&nbsp;spread through the air, but its showy flowers take the rap for the&nbsp;<em>very<\/em>&nbsp;airborne pollen produced by inconspicuous, green ragweed flowers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What will you see?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>HONEYBEES who, if they start the day on a yellow flower, continue to visit yellow flowers (a phenomenon called flower constancy);&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"aligncenter uwm-c-img--center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2025\/12\/honeybee10-3-300x300.webp\" alt=\"Honey bee\" class=\"wp-image-16634\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2025\/12\/honeybee10-3-300x300.webp 300w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2025\/12\/honeybee10-3-150x150.webp 150w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2025\/12\/honeybee10-3.webp 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Worker BUMBLE BEES who can \u201cbuzz pollinate\u201d some flowers \u2013 set up a vibration that loosens the pollen so they can collect it and carry it to an underground nest to nourish their queen and siblings &#8211; with no inkling that when goldenrods bloom, bumblebee days are almost over;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"aligncenter uwm-c-img--center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2025\/12\/bumblebee10-9-300x300.webp\" alt=\"Bumble bee\" class=\"wp-image-16633\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2025\/12\/bumblebee10-9-300x300.webp 300w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2025\/12\/bumblebee10-9-150x150.webp 150w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2025\/12\/bumblebee10-9.webp 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>PENNSYLVANIA LEATHERWING (Soldier) beetles, seldom alone, who visit the flower tops to feed and frolic (count the antennae) and who discourage predators with poisonous chemicals that drip from the bases of their legs;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"aligncenter uwm-c-img--center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2025\/12\/PA-leathrwng-2-300x300.webp\" alt=\"Pennsylvania Leathering Beetle\" class=\"wp-image-16639\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2025\/12\/PA-leathrwng-2-300x300.webp 300w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2025\/12\/PA-leathrwng-2-150x150.webp 150w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2025\/12\/PA-leathrwng-2.webp 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>SOLITARY WASPS catching a light snack of pollen or nectar for themselves while hoping to catch a fellow arthropod to provision their offspring\u2019s egg chamber;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"aligncenter uwm-c-img--center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2025\/12\/sphex-leatherwing-c-300x300.webp\" alt=\"Solitary wasps\" class=\"wp-image-16644\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2025\/12\/sphex-leatherwing-c-300x300.webp 300w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2025\/12\/sphex-leatherwing-c-150x150.webp 150w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2025\/12\/sphex-leatherwing-c.webp 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>BUTTERFLIES, the most graceful among us, who surround us with magic;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"aligncenter uwm-c-img--center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2025\/12\/monarch10-17-300x300.webp\" alt=\"A monarch butterfly\" class=\"wp-image-16636\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2025\/12\/monarch10-17-300x300.webp 300w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2025\/12\/monarch10-17-150x150.webp 150w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2025\/12\/monarch10-17.webp 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>LADYBIRD BEETLES grazing on herds of aphids;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"aligncenter uwm-c-img--center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2025\/12\/7-spttd-ladybug-2-300x300.webp\" alt=\"Lady bug beetle\" class=\"wp-image-16642\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2025\/12\/7-spttd-ladybug-2-300x300.webp 300w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2025\/12\/7-spttd-ladybug-2-150x150.webp 150w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2025\/12\/7-spttd-ladybug-2.webp 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>AMBUSH BUG &#8211; Insects that are sitting way too still, who may still be in the clutches of a well-camouflaged predator like the ambush bug (here with a Syrphid fly), who grabs and immobilizes them, injects a meat tenderizer, slurps out their innards, and discards the empties;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"aligncenter uwm-c-img--center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2025\/12\/ambush-bug10-5-300x300.webp\" alt=\"Ambush Bug sitting on a flower\" class=\"wp-image-16631\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2025\/12\/ambush-bug10-5-300x300.webp 300w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2025\/12\/ambush-bug10-5-150x150.webp 150w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2025\/12\/ambush-bug10-5.webp 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>MOTHS \u2013 small, amorous, plain and fancy;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"aligncenter uwm-c-img--center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2025\/12\/moths10-1-300x300.webp\" alt=\"Moth\" class=\"wp-image-16637\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2025\/12\/moths10-1-300x300.webp 300w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2025\/12\/moths10-1-150x150.webp 150w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2025\/12\/moths10-1.webp 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>SPIDERS, who catch their prey using tools (an orb-weaver\u2019s web) or ambush (jumping spiders);<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-ad2f72ca wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter uwm-c-img--center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2025\/12\/bndd-argiope10-4rz-300x300.webp\" alt=\"An orb-weaver spider in its web with two pale yellow butterflies trapped in the strands, goldenrod flowers blurred in the background.\" class=\"wp-image-16646\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2025\/12\/bndd-argiope10-4rz-300x300.webp 300w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2025\/12\/bndd-argiope10-4rz-150x150.webp 150w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2025\/12\/bndd-argiope10-4rz.webp 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"aligncenter uwm-c-img--center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2025\/12\/jmp-spider10-12-300x300.webp\" alt=\"A jumping spider\" class=\"wp-image-16635\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2025\/12\/jmp-spider10-12-300x300.webp 300w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2025\/12\/jmp-spider10-12-150x150.webp 150w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2025\/12\/jmp-spider10-12.webp 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>BLISTER BEETLES, whose velvety, black coat contains an itch-and-lump-producing chemical that will bug you for a week.&nbsp; Like the Pennsylvania, they are August specialties;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"aligncenter uwm-c-img--center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2025\/12\/blister-beetle09-2-300x300.webp\" alt=\"A blister beetle\" class=\"wp-image-16632\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2025\/12\/blister-beetle09-2-300x300.webp 300w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2025\/12\/blister-beetle09-2-150x150.webp 150w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2025\/12\/blister-beetle09-2.webp 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>SYRPHID (HOVER, FLOWER) FLIES that come in sizes so small that their flight doesn\u2019t even rustle the pollen grains;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"aligncenter uwm-c-img--center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2025\/12\/syrphid-fly10-2-300x300.webp\" alt=\"Syrphid\" class=\"wp-image-16638\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2025\/12\/syrphid-fly10-2-300x300.webp 300w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2025\/12\/syrphid-fly10-2-150x150.webp 150w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2025\/12\/syrphid-fly10-2.webp 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>GRASSHOPPERS AND KATYDIDS, who see us coming and launch themselves into the air with a thrust of legs and wings;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"aligncenter uwm-c-img--center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2025\/12\/femur-rubrum10-3-300x300.webp\" alt=\"Grasshopper\" class=\"wp-image-16643\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2025\/12\/femur-rubrum10-3-300x300.webp 300w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2025\/12\/femur-rubrum10-3-150x150.webp 150w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2025\/12\/femur-rubrum10-3.webp 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>TACHINID FLIES, they of the bristly butts, who lay their eggs on flowers so that their young can climb aboard an unwary insect and eat it from the inside, out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"aligncenter uwm-c-img--center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2025\/12\/tachinid10-2b-300x300.webp\" alt=\"Tachinid fly\" class=\"wp-image-16640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2025\/12\/tachinid10-2b-300x300.webp 300w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2025\/12\/tachinid10-2b-150x150.webp 150w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2025\/12\/tachinid10-2b.webp 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>TIPHIID WASPS, whose larvae prey on soil-dwelling larvae of some scarab beetles like June beetles. The female doesn\u2019t bring food to her egg; she brings her egg to food. When the female wasp locates a grub in the ground), she lays an egg on\/near it<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"aligncenter uwm-c-img--center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2025\/12\/wasp-tiphiid-1-300x300.webp\" alt=\"Tiphiid wasp\" class=\"wp-image-16641\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2025\/12\/wasp-tiphiid-1-300x300.webp 300w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2025\/12\/wasp-tiphiid-1-150x150.webp 150w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2025\/12\/wasp-tiphiid-1.webp 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>They\u2019re all there, and more.&nbsp;Pollinators and predators.&nbsp;The drama of life and death playing out hundreds of times against the buttery backdrop of goldenrod, whose Ojibwe name means \u201csun medicine.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Carpe diem<\/em>,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The BugLady<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"taxonomy-post_tag wp-block-post-terms\"><a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/tag\/bug\/\" rel=\"tag\">Bug<\/a><span class=\"wp-block-post-terms__separator\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/tag\/bumble-bees\/\" rel=\"tag\">bumble bees<\/a><span class=\"wp-block-post-terms__separator\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/tag\/butterflies\/\" rel=\"tag\">Butterflies<\/a><span class=\"wp-block-post-terms__separator\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/tag\/goldenrod\/\" rel=\"tag\">Goldenrod<\/a><span class=\"wp-block-post-terms__separator\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/tag\/grasshoppers\/\" rel=\"tag\">Grasshoppers<\/a><span class=\"wp-block-post-terms__separator\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/tag\/honeybees\/\" rel=\"tag\">honeybees<\/a><span class=\"wp-block-post-terms__separator\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/tag\/moths\/\" rel=\"tag\">Moths<\/a><span class=\"wp-block-post-terms__separator\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/tag\/pollinators\/\" rel=\"tag\">pollinators<\/a><span class=\"wp-block-post-terms__separator\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/tag\/spiders\/\" rel=\"tag\">Spiders<\/a><span class=\"wp-block-post-terms__separator\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/tag\/wasps\/\" rel=\"tag\">Wasps<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Howdy, BugFans, It\u2019s the start of December \u2013 and of meteorological winter \u2013 and it\u2019s cold out, and the BugLady is still wondering what, exactly, happened to August.&nbsp;Here\u2019s a little slice of August, from 15 years ago. 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