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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

WAUSAU - One fiery red insect is eating Marathon County residents out of their lilies and gardens. Known for its scarlet red coloring and black limbs, the half-inch, oblong-shaped lily leaf beetle has ...

A reader, Carolyn West, sent me an e-mail recently reporting with dismay that the lily leaf beetle had been discovered in her neighborhood in Hartford’s West End. She treated the news about the same ...

The video above reveals the recently-discovered (and weird) way that the water lily beetle, Genus Galerucella, gets across the water between lily pads. It’s decidedly odd. And very cool. The beetle’s ...

The lily, native around the world in the temperate parts of the northern hemisphere, has been an important cultural icon for millennia. Depending where you stand on the globe, it can represent ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...