Bean leaf beetle is among the top five most-damaging invertebrate soybean pests, costing growers nearly 3.1 million bushels in 2023.¹ This pest is especially damaging early in the season and can cause ...

Answer: Leaf cutting ants (Acromyrmex versicolor) are difficult to manage. They strip many different types of plants for the purpose of cultivating fungi on the plant parts they harvest. Because the ...

Scientists have discovered two new species of leaf beetles in southern India that display a novel way of using leaf holes and their fecal pellets to build shelters – a nesting behavior previously not ...

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 feed on ...

The female case-bearing leaf beetle Neochlamisus platani tries to give her children a head-start in life, but most mothers might not be keen on how she does it – encasing her young in an armoured ...