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Greetings, BugFans,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

OK \u2013 it\u2019s September, but the bug season isn\u2019t over yet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Outside of wetlands, if there\u2019s anything better than a walk on the prairie, surrounded by Big Bluestem grass, with big Common Green Darners and Black Saddlebags dragonflies overhead, the BugLady hasn\u2019t found it yet. Here is another batch of summer images, mostly from prairies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Look for the AMERICAN RUBYSPOT<\/strong> (one of our classiest damselflies) near running water. Yes, the male is spectacular, but the female is no slouch, either.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ANT AND GRASSHOPPER<\/strong> \u2013 When Aesop wrote the fable about the grasshopper and the ant (you remember it – the ant prepares for tomorrow while the grasshopper fritters), this probably wasn\u2019t what he had in mind. The largish ant and the smallish grasshopper were going home for dinner together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Ant<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

CAROLINA LOCUST<\/strong> \u2013 This is the large, very well camouflaged grasshopper\/locust that jumps up in front of you as you walk in the prairie. Its flying wings are inky, with cream-colored margins, reminiscent of a Mourning Cloak butterfly. Males advertise for mates by hovering above the grass-tops and making a rattling\/crackling\/snapping\/clicking sound (it\u2019s called crepitation<\/em>) with their wings. It looks like it was carved out of stone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Carolina<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

BLACK SADDLEBAGS DRAGONFLY<\/strong> \u2013 Any day now, Black Saddlebags and Common Green Darners will set their course for the South and sail down the Lake Michigan coastline in a steady stream. Only 15 of the 460+ species of dragonflies and damselflies migrate, and it\u2019s a grand sight. Local BugFans can watch from the bluffs at Lion\u2019s Den Nature Preserve near Grafton as the dragonflies go past at eye level.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Black<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Mooned by JAPANESE BEETLES<\/strong>. They\u2019re having a good year this year. These lusty scarabs were first seen in 1916 at a plant nursery in New Jersey, having arrived as hitchhikers in a shipment of iris bulbs from Asia. They are the ultimate generalist herbivores, feeding on the leaves and fruits of about 300 different plant species, both woody and herbaceous. Pretty, though.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Japanese<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

MAYFLY<\/strong> – The BugLady was photographing an ambush bug with its prey when she felt something land ever-so-lightly on her arm. If she\u2019d have guessed before looking, she never would have guessed a mayfly. Mayflies are in the well-named order Ephemerata<\/em>, and ephemeral they are. Their naiads live for a year under water, and when they emerge as adults, often in Biblical numbers, they are unequipped with mouthparts and live for only a few days. But it\u2019s enough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Mayfly\"<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

BLACK AND YELLOW ARGIOPE<\/strong> – The BugLady is thrilled to see good numbers of these spectacular orbweavers this year. They\u2019re beautiful, and they\u2019ve been hard to find lately. Orbweavers are with us all summer, mostly unobserved until late August, when they reach an impressive size.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Black<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

STINKBUG AND PREY<\/strong> – A (probably) Podisus maculiventris<\/em> stinkbug nymph making a meal out of an alien Pine sawfly larva, on a porch rail; the duo probably dropped out of the White pine above. They\u2019re known as Spined soldier bugs because of the adults\u2019 pointy \u201cshoulders\u201d.<\/a> Stinkbugs insert their mouthparts into their prey, pump in the meat tenderizer, wait a bit, and then suck out their prey\u2019s softened innards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Stinkbug<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

TIGER SWALLOWTAIL<\/strong> \u2013 The BugLady has a small flower garden at her new home, mostly populated by horticultural (\u201ctame\u201d) stuff that she\u2019ll be replacing with native plants. She may make an exception for this lily, which was both hummingbird and butterfly-friendly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Tiger<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

VICEROY and MONARCH<\/strong> – Telling a Monarch butterfly from a Viceroy is easy, once you know the secret handshake. Viceroys are a bit smaller, and (to the BugLady\u2019s eyes) their flight is a bit peppier than a Monarch\u2019s, but those traits are pretty subjective. The Viceroy is always held up as a Monarch mimic that cashes in on the fact that Monarchs are toxic because of their caterpillar\u2019s food plant, and predators learn to avoid them. Viceroy caterpillar host plants are willow, aspen, and poplar, and some scientists believe that while they may not be toxic, they are probably distasteful, and the two species complement each other<\/a>. Anyway, the Viceroy, on the left, has a C-shaped black line through the hind wing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Viceroy<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

SYRPHID\/HOVER\/FLOWER FLIES<\/strong> \u2013 There have been astonishing numbers of these small, harmless, bee-mimicking flies in grasslands lately. Swallows, dragonflies, damselflies and other consumers must be living large on them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Syrphid\"<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

A MASS of MONARCHS<\/strong> \u2013 Monarchs migrate along the lakeshore, too. The BugLady found two groups with about 50 Monarchs apiece – early migrants – tucking themselves in for the night at the end of her driveway one afternoon in mid-August.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Monarchs\"<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Go outside. Find a prairie. Look at bugs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The BugLady<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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