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These little bugs have a shiny blue appearance, but they'll leave your trees looking bare if you don't tackle them ...
The lily leaf beetle mostly feeds on certain lilies, but also a few other Michigan garden favorites. MSU reports the lily leaf beetles eat stems, leaves and flowers.
There are remedies that can rid veggies of common insects if applied at the first signs of activity, Don Kinzler writes.
Caroline Chaboo’s eyes light up when she talks about tortoise beetles. Like gems, they exist in myriad bright colors: shiny blue, red, orange, leaf green and transparent flecked with gold. They ...
Bean leaf beetle is among the top five most-damaging invertebrate soybean pests, costing growers nearly 3.1 million bushels in 2023.¹ This pest is especially damaging early in the season and can ...
Leaf beetles can be found to feed on almost all plant groups. They live in the rhizosphere, the canopy and even underwater. Many leaf beetles, such as the Colorado potato beetle, are notorious pests.
They’re members of a group of 40,000 species of leaf beetles, the Chrysomelidae, one of the most species-rich branches of the vast beetle order, Coleoptera. “You have your weevils, longhorns ...
Economic injury from bean leaf beetle is relatively rare early in the season, but severe leaf feeding can cause significant bean leaf beetle damage in soybeans and should be stopped if defoliation ...
Some leaf beetles may begin their lives in a cradle of feces — in some species, the mother beetle covers her eggs with waste to protect them before they hatch. This may also transfer useful ...