Beetles display a wide range of colors, from deep muted tones to those that shift from green to purple or yellow as they ...

When gardeners see insects in the garden, they often fear these multi-legged creatures will chew and chomp their way through the landscape and leave a trail of destruction in their wake. While there ...

I grew up calling the bright, red beetle with black spots on its wings a lady bug. I have heard people call them ladybirds, and I never understood why someone would call a bug a bird. Since I’m ...

I stand in the backyard holding a plastic bucket containing several inches of soapy water with airy foam on top. It’s a cool morning, the second week in July. I snatch a sluggish Japanese beetle off a ...

Although they're often confused with the iridescent green June beetles, which are basically harmless to your garden, these lookalike beetles can cause damage.

GOLDEN VALLEY, Minn. — Let’s talk Japanese beetles. As tedious as it sounds, the best way to deal with them is to hand pick them off your plants and plop them into a buckets of soapy water. Research ...

Here's one good reason to stick around in the heat and humidity of summer: fireflies. Mention of these insects inevitably rekindles fond childhood memories of collecting fireflies, or lightning bugs, ...

Rather than Messerschmitts and Junkers darkening the skies, this time it is a small flying insect that is bugging the Garden of England. Dense formations of cockchafers, an inch-long flying beetle, ...