After writing about the fig beetle – a shiny green scarab beetle that feeds on overripe fruit and decomposing organic matter – I received the following email from Elizabeth Russell ...

Research finds that fungus carried by ambrosia beetles works together with a second fungus to cause fig wilting disease. "A combination of the ambrosia beetle and its fungi may lead to symptoms of ...

Within a year or two, in all likelihood, the tree will be dead (Fig. 4). In the core area, that region of southeastern Michigan where the beetle was first discovered, the dead tree total is estimated ...

After writing about the fig beetle – a shiny green scarab beetle that feeds on overripe fruit and decomposing organic matter – I received the following email from Elizabeth Russell, who gardens in ...