Texas’ state plant, the prickly pear cactus, is being devoured by invasive caterpillars. So Texas scientists are releasing ...

Ants are often an early sign of the presence of aphids on a plant because they protect aphids from their natural enemies.

Many insects have evolved to protect themselves from predators. For example, different types of beetles have adopted defenses ...

As the 2025 crop season begins, farmers across the prairies are already on high alert for potential insect damage. Dr. Meghan ...

When you contemplate what foods beetles eat, it is tempting to say “just about everything.” Beetles eat a wide range of ...

Wireworms, the larvae of click beetles, are tunneling through potato tubers at an ... tons), with some fields seeing rejection rates as high as 50% because of wireworm damage, per Potato News Today.

Lurking at the roots, grubs can wreak damage before you notice it ... "Lawn grubs, for example, might be the larvae of Japanese beetles, June bugs, Southern masked chafer, or Crane fly larvae ...

Emerald Ash Borer (EAB) beetles are an invasive species that found its way to the U.S. from China. First appearing in Kansas in 2012, the species has spread across the country. Skyler Delmott ...

In the experimental ditches of the Living Lab, they saw that insects such as dragonflies and beetles drastically declined ... applied network models to detect damage to species communities.

Some of the jars are empty, and others contain several coconut rhinoceros beetle larvae. Monahan, a dog handler for the ... established in the state — and cause billions of dollars of damage to the ...

In the U.S., they're an invasive pest that can damage crops ... This helps distinguish them from other beetles. Young Japanese beetles are called larvae or grubs. Their bodies are about an ...

Carpet beetles can easily go unnoticed for a long time, but can cause quite a bit of damage. Therefore ... He says vacuuming this way will reveal any concealed dirt, beetles, larvae or eggs which you ...