One morning this week while tying some unruly grapevines to their trellis wire, I came across an interesting insect that was hard to miss. It was a grapevine beetle just resting there on a grape leaf.

MANGILAO, Guam — One of this island’s most notorious invasive species apparently is helping another, researchers say. A recent study shows that a lack of birds and rats — because of the brown tree ...

Half of Brooks Maloof’s trees were killed due to a pest. Maloof owns an orchard in Puna on Hawaii island. He said it started with a healthy avocado tree about a month after he purchased some mulch.

Our front yard is swarming with big green beetles. The grass in that area has turned brown. Can you tell me please what they are, and how to treat the lawn next year to prevent them. A: That sounds ...

Big black beetles with long antennae might be skittering around your yard or patio this time of year, but fear not: These are just the relatively harmless palo verde beetles, also known as palo verde ...

Summertime is here, and with it comes — let's just phrase it this way — "opportunities" for us as gardeners to outwit uninvited pests that think we planted our gardens just for them. One that seems to ...

The big beetle haunted R.J. Steer. For years driving through the canyon country south of Colorado Springs, he winced at the sight of that statue there on the hilltop before May Natural History Museum, ...

As you wander beneath Marin County’s stately white oaks, such as valley and blue oaks, be aware some little troublemakers are on the move. The Mediterranean oak borer (Xyleborus monographus), a beetle ...

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