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- Aug 24, 2026
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The difference between bed bugs and bat bugs (opens the original)
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Finding a small, reddish-brown bug in your home can be concerning, especially when it resembles a bed bug. However, not every bug that looks like a bed bug is one. Bat bugs (Cimex adjunctus) are close relatives of bed bugs (Cimex lectularius) and can sometimes be found indoors, making identification important. Traveling to far areas of the globe shrinks our world and allows pests to travel in our belongings home with us. Bed bugs are common in many areas of the world, and many people never think
Milkweed plays host to ravenous moth caterpillars (opens the original)
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We have a milkweed colony right up to our mailbox, as the township officials are always cutting back the ditches. We stopped for the mail and Bill was so excited. Caterpillars on the leaves! I took pictures and I even made a video, as they moved with jerking motions, very unusual. I posted the pictures in haste. A short time later, a fellow Master Gardener sent me a message that these were not Monarch caterpillars as I had labeled them, but they were milkweed tussock moth caterpillars. I got so
Blue-winged wasp one of the best (opens the original)
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I was asked to write an article on the blue-winged wasp, and it was opportune as I have seen a few in my yard. This inch-sized wasp (Scolia dubia) is an amazing, wonderful, benign member of the group called solitary wasps. These wasps do not build communal nests or work together in colonies with others of their species. Instead, individual females independently locate and provision their offspring, completing their reproductive cycle without the cooperation of a colony. Beginning in June, these
Summer bagworms hide in plain sight (opens the original)
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Bill and I stopped to wash the car, when I noticed some junipers full of bagworms. Many mistake them for pine cones, but they're actually a type of moth (Thyridopteryx ephemeraeformis) that plagues many conifers, trees and shrubs. Larvae appear in May and June, from the bag where the eggs overwintered, to feed. They attach themselves to the plant by a thread and build conical bags, looking like an upside down ice cream cone, built of plant debris. They eat the new growth of the host plant, molt
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