Species in the genus Nectopsyche are called White Miller Caddisflies.  (Bugguide) 7/30/2011   7/30/2011 on Bugguide

Species in the genus Nectopsyche are called White Miller Caddisflies.  (Bugguide) 7/1/2018   7/1/2018 on Bugguide

Family Cecidomyiidae Make leaf blisters on sow-thistle – Sonchus  (Bugguide) 8/1/2022  Leaf blisters on Sonchus arvensis   8/11/2022 on Bugguide

Tiny flies with long legs and long antennae.  Most make galls.  (Bugguide)

Family Geometridae    Hodges # 7197 Caterpillar foods:  Grape and Virginia Creeper  (Wagner) This species is very similar to Eulithis diversiliniata – the adults look identical.  The only way to tell them apart is by dissection or rearing.  (Bugguide) According to David Wagner:  “Eulithis gracilineata is a brownish twig mimic with darkly pigmented lateral swelling on […]

[To see photos and stories of this prairie in other years, go to the links on the main Sheep Hill Bluff Prairie page.] Mike mowed the prairie twice again this year – mostly to control Queen Anne’s Lace and Common Mullein.  I cut and treated some of the Mullein, and pulled all the Wild Parsnip […]

Food plants: Solanaceae  (Bugguide) 5/20/2023   5/20/2023 on Bugguide

[To see photos and stories about this prairie from other years, go to the main Volvo Meadow page.] I didn’t do much garlic mustard control here this year – I run out of time and the woods north of the short-cut path are isolated from the rest of the woods, so I feel like I […]