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 ...

A new invasive insect pest called the viburnum leaf beetle that causes severe defoliation of viburnum leaves has been reported in Illinois' DuPage and Cook counties, near Chicago. This pest has the ...

Unfortunately, your description sounds like your viburnums are being damaged by the viburnum leaf beetle. This damage is commonly found on arrowwood viburnums because the insect favors its smooth ...

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 ...

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 ...

Yardwork is going slowly but purposefully. I thought I’d been diligent about following my notes from last season, but I slipped up and forgot to check the lilies when they began to emerge. Last season ...

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 ...

From your picture (see below), it looks like something is eating the leaves between the veins (an inconvenient process called “skeletonization”). This is most likely caused by insects, and several ...

It feels like spring and our thoughts are turning to gardening. Turn to Ask an Expert, an online question-and-answer tool from Oregon State University’s Extension Service. OSU Extension faculty and ...

Alias: Cereal leaf beetle. The adult version of this small beetle is approximately a third of an inch long. Each body segment has a different color to it. They have a black head, an orange thorax and ...

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 ...