Certain plants can grab a gardener and hold him or her captive for a lifetime. It's kind of the way the relationship between a Victoria water lily and scarab beetle works. Gardeners become enamored ...

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. There are ...

ST PAUL, Minn. — An invasive insect that feeds on lilies and other popular plants has been discovered in Minnesota for the first time. The Minnesota Department of Agriculture (MDA) says a St. Paul ...

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A bright red beetle - and its dung-covered larvae - may be carving out a bare space in your garden where lilies once stood. The University of Connecticut Home and Garden Education Center put out an ...

Summer flowers fade and the pace of life in Westborough picks up in September, but a vision of summertime lingers on shallow ponds where native white water-lilies bloom. Known as fragrant water-lily ...

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 ...

MADISON – A bright-red beetle whose young eat lilies, look like slugs, and wrap themselves in their own excrement has shown up in Marathon County. It’s the first time this pest has been found in ...

For decades, Florida homeowners have been battling a monster in their gardens: a creeping vine with heart-shaped leaves and dangling potatolike bulbs that suffocates trees, bushes and even entire ...

Though few plants would make good action videos on a nature show, that doesn’t mean plants are uninteresting. The carnivorous ones are certainly intriguing, whether they capture their prey, usually ...

Stay on top of what’s happening in the Bay Area with essential Bay Area news stories, sent to your inbox every weekday. The Bay Bay Area-raised host Ericka Cruz Guevarra brings you context and ...