With its shimmering green and gold shell, the common rose chafer is reminiscent of a valuable piece of jewelry. This year they are particularly common in Vorarlberg. Rose chafer beetles are definitely ...

Life on Earth runs on a 24-hour cycle as the planet turns. Animals and plants have built-in circadian clocks that synchronize metabolism and behavior to this daily cycle. But one beetle is out of sync ...

Langstone, Hampshire: These juveniles survive on dead leaves and other detritus, and will one day become iridescent coppery-green adult beetles My containers have been plagued with vine weevil larvae ...

The heat is on — or was. A Fourth of July weekend with temperatures eclipsing 90 degrees has set into motion all sorts of outdoor activity. Tomato plants are flourishing, pumpkin vines are growing a ...

Lawns in Metro Vancouver are still being damaged by European chafer beetles.The problem will again be more noticeable this month as raccoons tear up turf in search of chafer grubs, which are slowly ...

A milder winter means the European chafer beetle has been out of hibernation for longer than usual. This also means the animals that tear up lawns and eat the grubs have been around for a while, too, ...

Langstone, Hampshire: These jewel-like beetles shimmer violet, copper and gold, but they shouldn’t be emerging yet I’d just knocked a raspberry cane out of its pot when a metallic flash of emerald ...

The Vancouver Park Board is deploying a tiny defender in its battle against the invasive European chafer beetle. It's treating 31 sports fields with nematodes — a microscopic roundworm that feeds on ...

They are the stuff of nightmares - the arachnid with a menacing red stripe on a bulging black abdomen and enough venom to kill a person. The Australian redback spider has found the perfect ...

Claude LeDoux, New Westminster’s horticulture manager, called me Monday to point out that the reported fact that European chafer beetles first arrived in his municipality hidden in “nursery stock” ...

VANCOUVER – The Vancouver parks board hopes a microscopic champion will win the fight against a pest chewing through the city’s grass boulevards, lawns and playing fields. Starting this week, ...