Bryan's Posts About Insects
Insect Alerts
News from the frontiers of blue butterflies and burgundy damselflies.
Vermont’s New Damselfly and Dragonfly Atlas
Today we launched the Vermont Damselfly and Dragonfly Atlas, which allows anyone to report, track, study, discover or simply enjoy these charismatic insects.
April Clickbait
If nature blogs were as rhapsodic as BuzzFeed and other clickbait, they might read something like these.
Happy Vernal Equinox
On this day with roughly 12 hours of daylight and 12 hours of darkness, I bring you two insects.
Winter Butterflies
A butterfly slide show to join the odd winter warmth on the way here in New England.
Cold Caddisflies Copulating
On a cold, miserable day at my home here in Vermont, a pair of caddisflies found time to “get hot” and make more caddisflies.
Autumn EcoAlerts
Four reminders for you to look high, low and in between as you walk the cold, soggy paths this weekend.
Insects in Vermont Today – Naked in Norway on Wednesday
Tune in at noon today (Tuesday) for insects, and meet me and Ruth Wednesday for wildlife above the Arctic Circle.
The Sunflower and the Butterfly: Together They Fall
When you kill a rare sunflower here in Vermont, you may also be killing a rare butterfly.
Pale Beauties
Elegance now flies and blooms in shades of white. During my meanderings so far this month, I’ve found pale beauty where plants and insects converge.
“Mothpelier”
National Moth Week (I’m sure you all celebrated) ended Sunday. My celebration included three dozen moth species, a mere fraction of what came visiting my home here in Montpelier, Vermont, presented in full-frontal display here on my web site.
Crap or Moth?
Droppings from nature.
