Bean leaf beetle is among the top five most-damaging invertebrate soybean pests, costing growers nearly 3.1 million bushels in 2023.¹ This pest is especially damaging early in the season and can cause ...

The viburnum leaf beetle has come to Minnesota, the latest in a series of invasive insects to arrive in the state. The state Department of Agriculture recently received its first report of the insect ...

Ask any vegetable gardener about beans and pull up a chair. Some grow lima beans, dry beans or wax beans but almost every home garden has a patch of green beans. Beans grow quickly and don't need much ...

Question: Help! We have some little slug-like creature eating one of our shrubs. I don’t know the name of the shrub, but it gets white flowers in the spring and then clusters of red berries in the ...

Though their life cycles differ, soybean aphids and bean leaf beetles can both pose significant threats to emerging soybeans due to the timing of their own emergence. Although the first bean leaf ...

The Minnesota home garden has a new enemy — the viburnum leaf beetle — and officials are asking the public to help them keep an eye on it. The Minnesota Department of Agriculture reported finding the ...

Antagonistic interactions are widespread in nature, spurring the evolution of protective traits. In insects, as with other animals, symbioses with beneficial microbes can serve as a source of ...

An invasive insect never before found in Minnesota has been discovered in Eden Prairie, the Minnesota Department of Agriculture said in a July 25 news release. An Eden Prairie resident found an insect ...

A leaf-eating beetle has evolved a symbiotic relationship that allows the insect to break down pectin. The findings on the novel function of the bacterium, which has a surprisingly tiny genome -- much ...

With more than 50,000 described species, the leaf beetle family is distributed worldwide and represents about a quarter of the species diversity of all herbivores. Leaf beetles can be found to feed on ...

Evolution, Vol. 50, No. 6 (Dec., 1996), pp. 2373-2386 (14 pages) Insect-plant interactions have played a prominent role in investigating phylogenetic constraints in the evolution of ecological traits.