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Cucumber beetles are one of the most destructive pests in the vegetable garden, and if you’re searching for how ...

Cucumber beetles wouldn’t be quite so bad if they didn’t transmit deadly bacterial wilt to cucumbers and melons. The most common of cucumber pests are black and yellow cucumber beetles, including ...

Pathogens can drive the evolution of social behavior in insects. Ants and honeybees share nests of hundreds or thousands of individuals in a very small space. Hence the risk is high that infectious ...

Mexican bean beetles are especially problematic in the rainy areas of the East, and tend to pose fewer problems in dry climates. This article is part of ourOrganic Pest Control Series, which includes ...

The adult beetles are known as one of the Sunflower State's "most destructive insect pests of horticultural plants." ...

This story was originally published by Mother Jones and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. There is an eerie feel to this grove of lodgepole pines that I can’t quite put my ...

into the ankle-deep muck of the wetland. After a few quick tugs, hundreds of tiny beetles were released into the ecosystem to fight an invasive species. Stage was one of a half-dozen volunteers who ...

Various beetle species have gobbled through grain stores and weakened food production worldwide since ancient times. Now, researchers seek to exploit beetles' greatest strength against them -- their ...