One that you might have spotted from spring through summer is the alder leaf beetle. This little shiny blue-black bug is often found on alder trees, coining its name. Just like getting rid of ...

Like gems, they exist in myriad bright colors: shiny blue, red ... rich branches of the vast beetle order, Coleoptera. “You have your weevils, longhorns and leaf beetles,” she says.

With more than 50,000 described species, the leaf beetle family is distributed worldwide and represents about a quarter of the species diversity of all herbivores. Leaf beetles can be found to ...