Sunday, January 5, 2025

Single-Panel Comics - by Insects and Bernie Paquette (Vol VIII)

Comics by Bernie and Nature! 

Laugh and Learn
De-bugging insects

   Vermont single-panel comics. Captions by Bernie, images by nature. Sponsored by the Insect Alliance, Solidarity for All Life, and our highly valued Local Pollinators. These comics introduced the term "Inverting" which means invertebrate watching as birding is to bird watching. 

Inverting is being outside, observing, experiencing

 the multitude, the diversity, the daily going ons of LIFE.

No bones about it, I am an 'inverter'!

Let's recognize our bond with all living species.

Bug-inspired comic #163 Jan 4, 2024

Mama told me not to stick my tongue out

Mama told me not to stick my tongue out

unless I was reaching into a flower.

Now that it is freezing outside

with not a flower or mama in sight

thought I would give it a try

didn't get caught 

it froze in place

mama mia!

Pure Green Sweat Bee (Augochlora pura)


Bug-inspired comic #162 Dec 28, 2024
A New Beginning 

Whatever you will become,  

HAPPY NEW YEAR to you!


When I was just a little girl

I asked my mother, "What will I be?

Will I be pretty, will I be rich?"

Here's what she said to me


"Que Sera, Sera

Whatever will be, will be

The future's not ours to see

Que Sera, Sera

What will be, will be"


When I was young, I fell in love

I asked my sweetheart, "What lies ahead?

Will we have rainbows, day after day?"

Here's what my sweetheart said


"Que Sera, Sera

Whatever will be, will be

The future's not ours, to see

Que Sera, Sera

What will be, will be"


Now I have children of my own

They ask their mother, "What will I be

Will I be handsome, will I be rich?"

I tell them tenderly


"Que Sera, Sera

Whatever will be, will be

The future's not ours, to see

Que Sera, Sera

What will be, will be"

Songwriters: Raymond B. Evans / Jay Livingston. Whatever Will Be, Will Be (Que Sera, Sera) lyrics © Jay Livingston Music, St. Angelo Music, Crc Jianian Publishing, St Angelo Music


Continue Laughing and Learning with more Bug-Inspired Comics

Wednesday, January 1, 2025

2024: A Year in Review: Life in Jericho, Underhill, Richmond, Bolton, Vermont


 2024  iNaturalist Observation Totals by the four adjoining VT. towns.



View observation photos and details at


View the 2024 Monthly JURBIC (Jericho, Underhill, Richmond, Bolton Invertebrate Inverting Club) 

seeking to create a more intimate relationship 
between the human community and nature.