These little bugs have a shiny blue appearance, but they'll leave your trees looking bare if you don't tackle them ...

The leaf beetle has been deliberately used elsewhere in the world to control the plant, although largely for agricultural reasons rather than to combat allergies. In China, ...

Ask any vegetable gardener about beans and pull up a chair. Some grow lima beans, dry beans or wax beans but almost every home garden has a patch of green beans. Beans grow quickly and don't need much ...

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 ...

The elm leaf beetle, Xanthogaleruca luteola (or Pyrrhalta luteola) is a native of southern Europe, but it found its way to North America in the late 1800s.Adults are small, 6 or 8 mm (0.25 inches) ...

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 ...

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 ...

E volutionary biologists Hassan Salem and Aileen Berasategui wondered what to make of a white, waxy material that builds up on juvenile tortoise leaf beetles (Chelymorpha alternans).The most common ...

Other leaf beetles are also much darker in color, nearing black in some cases, the group said. The group compared the physical appearance of the beetle to other known leaf beetles to see if it was ...