Flea beetle damage. It begins with a tiny “shothole,” a hole straight through a leaf as if the leaf was poked with a tiny ice pick. Damage begins with a few holes then faint lacy patternings appear ...

“The Return of the Japanese Beetles” sounds like a horror movie. But unfortunately, these beetles have returned to devour our landscapes for another summer of ...

A shiny purple creature crawled around the inside of a tree near a palace in Bhutan. Perhaps the “stout” insect’s tree-dwelling lifestyle helped it go unnoticed. Or maybe the nearby palace simply ...

Nearly 138,000 trees — about 4 percent of Denton’s canopy — soon could be threatened by the emerald ash borer. The insect recently was confirmed in Tarrant County, where it already has killed trees ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. LITTLETON (KDVR) — There is a beetle in ...

“The Return of the Japanese Beetles” sounds like a horror movie. Unfortunately, these beetles have returned to devour our landscapes for another summer of terror ...

Remember the line from the movie “Poltergeist” — “They’re back.” We can use that to refer to the ravenous Japanese beetles as they return to rain havoc on gardens. Once a seldom seen insect, they are ...

The green structural color from this scarab beetle consists largely of polarized light. This image accompanied the perspective, "A Twist of Evolutionary Photonics,: by P. Vukusic appearing in the July ...

Clay models of dull and shiny beetles showed that Christmas beetles’ mirrorlike exterior may not serve as a form of camouflage against predators, Susan Milius reported in “Scientists scuff a theory ...

Oklahoma does indeed have Japanese beetles. This was recently the subject of a detailed Pest Alert publication issued by OSU's entomology department, available online ...