American elm trees are being feasted on by larvae of the larger elm leaf beetle, Slye said. This native half-inch beetle has blueish-black stripes across its orange back and its larvae have a ...

Tiny larvae, resembling bright green caterpillars, then hatch and begin to feed on the elm leaf for roughly 15 to 18 days leaving ... Now, as Keleher’s team turns its attention to the southern pine ...

Two separate homeowners reported an elm seed bug and an Asiatic garden ... lead to complete defoliation except for the leaf midribs." The garden beetle is native to Japan and China and was first ...

Dutch elm disease has been reported back in Denver after more than a decade of its absence. The Denver forestry office discovered the disease last month in the old American elms along 17th Avenue ...

With more than 50,000 described species, the leaf beetle family is distributed worldwide and represents about a quarter of the species diversity of all herbivores. Leaf beetles can be found to ...