Question: I live in Vail. These ants are stripping my trees and bushes of their leaves. I’ve tried the ant baits, granular and sprays that I can buy, but they just keep coming back. So far they ...

Beetles are fascinating, but there are so many that it is difficult to know where to begin – more than 350,000 species that ...

Leaf-cutters were earliest agriculturalists in the world, ... humans, termites and bark beetles," Fisher said, "and we humans only learned how to do it about 10,000 years ago.

All leaf beetles do this, but N.platani adds extra features to its home.It does some interior work, adding an attic and filling it with hairs (or trichomes) from the host plant, the American sycamore.

If you love your lilies in your garden, you may be living a gardening nightmare. The lily leaf beetle is eating its way across Michigan’s lilies. It’s been said we need to know our enemy ...

First, two lilies disappeared from the garden. Then, a crape myrtle tree was stripped overnight. Tina Ramirez's house in the Harper's Landing neighborhood of The Woodlands was under attack. Every ...

In leaf-cutter ants, this coating is made of thousands of tiny, plate-like crystals that harden their exoskeleton. This “armor” helps prevent the insects from losing limbs in battles with ...

A shiny beetle clung to a lush green leaf in a garden in Thailand. Footage shows the navy blue Milkweed beetle gleaming as its metallic exoskeleton reflected sunlight in Bangkok on October 6.

Leucoagaricus gongylophorus Produces Diverse Enzymes for the Degradation of Recalcitrant Plant Polymers in Leaf-Cutter Ant Fungus Gardens. Applied and Environmental Microbiology , 2013; 79 (12 ...

Leaf-cutter ants protect the crops from pests and mold. ... The beetles often leave a ring of what looks like sawdust around the tree as they push the wood shavings out of the holes they bore. 5.

Scientists have discovered two new species of leaf beetles in southern India that display a novel way of using leaf holes and their fecal pellets to build shelters – a nesting behavior ...

First, two lilies disappeared from the garden. Then, a crape myrtle tree was stripped overnight. Tina Ramirez's house in the Harper's Landing neighborhood of The Woodlands was under attack. Every ...