Bugs on Wheels

06/14/2026

Nadia The Bug Lady from is here again on Sunday, June 14 with her whole cast of critters! Join us in Festival Park in The Village of Rochester Hills from 12PM-2PM.

06/04/2026

We are baaaack!!! Bugs on Wheels will be at
The Village of Rochester Hills this summer for more fun with your favorite crawly critters! This event is FREE and will be exhibit-style- not presentation. This means you can come and go anytime you’d like between the time frames scheduled, as well as get your food and shopping done while you’re there! Can’t wait to see everyone!! 🕷️🪲🐜🦋🦂🐞☀️

Summer 2026 Schedule

Thursday, June 11 @ 10am- 12pm Sunday, June 14 @ 12pm-2pm
Thursday, June 25 @ 10am-12pm Thursday, July 9 @ 10am-12pm
Thursday, July 23 @ 10am-12pm Sunday, July 26 @ 12pm-2pm
Thursday, August 13 @ 10am-12pm Sunday, August 16 @ 12pm-2pm
Thursday, August 27th @ 10am-12pm

05/23/2026

A friend showed me this shirt and I just couldn’t help myself. 🤷🏼‍♀️🤣🌿🐜🐞🪲🕷️

05/17/2026

I had 2 tarantulas given to me as rehomes this weekend, including this beautiful girl! 😍 The very first tarantula I held was this same species, so it holds a special place for me, and I’m so happy to add her to my bug crew! Any name ideas for this Mexican Red-Knee beauty?? 🧡❤️🖤

05/13/2026

Check out this interview I did with Voyage Michigan. 💚🕷️

Today we’d like to introduce you to Nadia Greely. Hi Nadia, so excited to have you on the platform. So before we get into questions about your work-life, maybe you can bring our readers up to speed on your story and how you got to where you are today?When I was younger, I was obsessed […]

04/18/2026

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The brown insect you just crushed in the kitchen doorway was guarding a nursery six inches underground in your garden. She'd been tending those eggs for weeks.

She's an earwig. Named after a myth that's survived longer than most civilizations — that she crawls into human ears to lay eggs. She doesn't. She hasn't. The name dates to Old English and has outlasted every correction.

What she actually does is something most insects don't. She raises her young.

The European earwig mates in autumn. The pair shares a shallow burrow through winter. By late winter she drives the male out and lays a clutch of small white eggs in a chamber she dug herself.

Then she stays.

She positions herself over the eggs, turns them regularly to prevent mold, and moves them to a new spot if conditions shift. If the male returns, she drives him off. She knows the clutch. She tends it by hand.

When the nymphs hatch, she feeds them mouth to mouth — regurgitating food until they're strong enough to forage on their own. She loses body weight while they grow. The cost is real. She pays it anyway.

The pincers look dangerous. They're not. On human skin, an earwig pinch is barely noticeable. She carries no venom, no disease, and no interest in your house. She came inside through a crack looking for moisture and would rather be back under the damp mulch where her next clutch is forming.

Outside, she works nights — eating aphids, mites, and decaying plant material that would otherwise host fungal growth. She's a decomposer and a predator at the same time.

The next time you lift a stone and see a cluster of pale shapes huddled around a brown insect — you've interrupted a mother with her children.

Put the stone back 🌿

03/16/2026

Went to the recently and saw The Wizard of Oz! That venue is INCREDIBLE, by the way. I saw a concert there the night before as well, and it was 🤯. Anyway, the details they added were so fun, and I couldn’t help but notice the butterflies (literally flying around the venue), spiders, ants, and other arthropods they added!! You must go see it for yourself. Lions and tigers and bugs, oh my!!! 🐜🐜🐜🐜

02/05/2026

Had so much fun with the kids at LO Elementary!!
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01/30/2026

This had had both myself and d the teachers laughing when he pulled this from his pocket to touch the bugs with. 😂✋🏼 It was an innovative change from the sleeves that kids sometimes use when they are not quite brave enough to use their actual hands to hold the bugs.

01/13/2026

In the winter, my bookings have slowed down and I have more time to work on my arthropod specimens that I’ve collected over the busier, warmer months. Most of my taxidermy comes from arthropods that were found and had already died of natural causes, some were my own pets that I wanted to preserve, and some were specimens I required from ethical collectors. The goal is to use them to educate and show how beautiful these creatures are up close, even after they have died. What do you think??📍🦋🕷️🪲