An industry led campaign launched to reverse the decline in the UK’s oilseed rape area has put together a set of cabbage stem ...

Results from a nationwide cabbage stem flea beetle monitoring project suggest farmers can approach the growing season with ...

However, the latest findings reveal that pitfall traps fail to capture large numbers of predatory beetle larvae, underestimating their impact as natural pest controllers. The study’s key discovery is ...

If the weather isn’t ideal and there isn’t a host to feed on, flea larvae may remain dormant for months while waiting for better conditions to develop. This is a key reason managing ...

They take annual volunteer trips to collect flea beetles from the genus Aphthona, which feed on the leafy spurge roots. In 2019, the group collected 7,300 beetles and released them in the Yampa River ...

The female wasp inserts an egg, through the stem of a stalk of grain, onto a sawfly larva. The resulting wasp larva then consumes the sawfly larva, reducing the insects’ numbers and impact. The fact ...

LIHUE — Over the Easter weekend, a different kind of egg hunting occurred, as community volunteers hunted Kauai’s current invasive pest, the Coconut Rhinoceros Beetle (CRB). University of ...

Adult flea beetles chew tiny round holes in tomato leaves, giving them a lacy appearance. Meanwhile, the larvae live underground and feed on tomato roots. "Tomato seedlings are most at risk from ...

or commercial beetle traps are also available for do-it-yourselfers. "The best way to prevent June bugs from devouring your lawn is by '"making it inhospitable to their larvae,"' according to ...

The larvae spend 4 to 6 weeks feeding inside the stem before dropping down into the soil, where they make a silken cocoon, says Khan. The insect overwinters as a late-stage larvae or pupae in the ...

He says vacuuming this way will reveal any concealed dirt, beetles, larvae or eggs which you can then go over in the opposite direction to remove. "For a really thorough clean, you should also vacuum ...