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.

True lilies such as 'Mrs. R.O. Backhouse' can be severely damaged by lily leaf beetles, a relatively new pest in Central New York. The insects have been spreading from New England, where they were ...

The lily leaf beetle, an invasive insect native to Europe and Asia, has been discovered in Minnesota for the first time, the state Department of Agriculture announced Monday. A beetle sighting by ...

Unlike some of the other pests listed, lily leaf beetles are more of a problem in southeast and mid-Michigan, particularly because they are an invasive species that don't have many natural predators.