Spring season means warm weather, flowers blooming and a visit from the plant eating green June beetle. “They begin to appear around late May, early June depending on where you are in the state,” said ...

Soldier beetles hunt for aphids and other small insect pests in marigolds, goldenrod, yarrow, daisies and other flowering plants.(Howard Garrett / Special Contributor) Today, it’s beetle talk. Most ...

Above: lady beetles are being released into Purdue greenhouses as a biological control agent. Photo by Purdue University. Some insects are pests, but not all insects are bad. Overwhelmingly, the ...

At N.C. State Extension we teach and encourage the practice of Integrated Pest Management in horticulture. As the name suggests, Integrated Pest Management is a pest control practice that integrates ...

The success of North American crops from corn to Christmas trees partly depends on a relatively invisible component of the food web -- ground beetles. Nearly 2,000 species of ground beetle live in ...

Clumsy, large and, perhaps, mysterious beetles are once again active in Michigan: the June bug. "The term May or June beetles refers to some 10 different species of beetles in the genus Phyllophaga, ...