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 ...

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 ...

It's not the lily leaf beetle's practice of covering itself in its own poop that really gets to gardener Keith Severson. Its more offensive crime is eating his lily plants. "You've planted these ...

MADISON – A bright-red beetle whose young eat lilies, look like slugs, and wrap themselves in their own excrement has shown up in Marathon County. It’s the first time this pest has been found in ...

True lilies such as 'Mrs. R.O. Backhouse' can be severely damaged by lily leaf beetles, a relatively new pest in Central New York. The insects have been spreading from New England, where they were ...

A bright red beetle - and its dung-covered larvae - may be carving out a bare space in your garden where lilies once stood. The University of Connecticut Home and Garden Education Center put out an ...

WAUSAU - One fiery red insect is eating Marathon County residents out of their lilies and gardens. Known for its scarlet red coloring and black limbs, the half-inch, oblong-shaped lily leaf beetle has ...

The lily, native around the world in the temperate parts of the northern hemisphere, has been an important cultural icon for millennia. Depending where you stand on the globe, it can represent ...

With the arrival of warm weather also comes the arrival of summer's menaces: bugs. While some people might detest insects just for being so buggy, for gardeners, each year might feel like another new ...

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 ...