drills tiny holes into a wide variety of trees and introduces a fungus that it then harvests as food for itself and its larvae. Nourishing as it might be for the beetle, the fungus is toxic for ...
The fungus eats its way through the helpless moth larvae and then sprouts out of their heads like a spring daisy. But this rare hybrid, the caterpillar fungus, isn't just totally fascinating ...
Grubs, the larvae of May beetles, live in the soil and damage roots just like fungus gnats. How can you get rid of grubs and ...
The disease is a fungus that is introduced into healthy trees by the elm bark beetle. As the larvae of the beetle burrow into the wood, the fungus is spread. Chestnut blight has either eliminated or ...
It’s official: emerald ash borers are a nuisance. The Hutchinson City Council voted last Tuesday to declare the beetle a nuisance and prepare to hinder its infection of the area’s ash ...