GOLDEN VALLEY, Minn. — Let’s talk Japanese beetles. As tedious as it sounds, the best way to deal with them is to hand pick them off your plants and plop them into a buckets of soapy water. Research ...
The stag beetle Prosopocoilus hachijoensis is the only flightless species of the genus Prosopocoilus in Japan. Researchers at University of Tsukuba investigated the mechanisms underlying the loss of ...
Describing new species can take decades. But scientists are working to identify new ways to speed up our understanding of ...
The success of North American crops from corn to Christmas trees partly depends on a relatively invisible component of the food web -- ground beetles. Nearly 2,000 species of ground beetle live in ...
Our warm, dry winter, while easy on our snow shovel muscles and travel plans, has resurrected an old foe — the mountain pine ...
The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. If you don't already know it, I am sorry to be the one to tell you. The Japanese beetles have emerged ...
While working in your garden, have you ever turned over a rock or raked up some wet leaves and been startled to see a large, black beetle scurry away faster than a speeding bullet? That “super insect” ...