insects

Luckily spiders don't get too big in the Cowboy State.

Serious diseases sometimes spread by infected ticks in Wyoming include tularemia, Rocky Mountain spotted fever (RMSF) and Colorado tick fever (CTF).

YIKES: They can grow to the size of an adults' thumb and deliver a sting so painful that one entomologist described it to The New York Times as "like having red-hot thumbtacks" being driven into their flesh.

Crickets are enviro-friendly and more sustainable, using 98% less water and feed and 95% less land as traditional sources of protein. But I am a carnivore.

Everywhere you look in downtown Cheyenne are little... white... flying... buggy....moths? Well, whatever they are, they are everywhere... Last fall I had the opportunity to broadcast a football game in Sheridan, Wyoming. The press box was crawling with these guys, the door to my hotel room was crawling with them too...

Have you ever had a bee in your house? We recently put our window air conditioners in and before we sealed up the gaps, a flying insect was buzzing around our Cheyenne house. How do you catch a bee?

Have you ever spotted a praying mantis here in Cheyenne? While walking to the parking lot of the ANB Bank last week, I encountered this praying mantis on the sidewalk near the drive-up ATM along with lots of other insects and beetles, some of them probably became her dinner.

Have you been seeing lots of millers lately? It's that time again around our region, when temperatures rise and the millers move to higher ground, passing through Cheyenne. This year already looks like a bumper crop.