State officials trapped nearly three times the number of Japanese beetles in the region this year than in 2024, a worrying trend for a pest that can cause major damage to commercial crops and ...

It’s a different kind of “Help” by the Beetles. Between bomb-detecting rats and medical-grade maggots, it’s clear that one person’s pest is another’s savior. The latest member of this unlikely league ...

Japanese beetles are an invasive insect species currently at or near peak population. The beetles are known for skeletonizing leaves on hundreds of plant species, including common garden plants and ...

In 2025, Konstanz scientists looked very closely at rotting fruit in local orchards, and observed what no one had ...

Jul 6, 2025 Jul 6, 2025 Updated Aug 4, 2025 Don Hardin's hillside was largely cleared of trees killed by the mountain pine beetle in April with help from his neighbors but now, in early July, an ...

(Beyond Pesticides, February 5, 2025) A study in PLOS One finds acute and chronic impacts of nontarget toxicity on the American burying beetle, Nicrophorus americanus, with neonicotinoid insecticide ...

The Oregon Department of Agriculture said it won’t continue Japanese beetle eradication operations in 2026 after those efforts weren’t funded by the Oregon Legislature. Jeff Stone, executive director ...

HOLDEN ― After years of effort to control the harmful invasive species, the town of Holden has become the first community removed from Worcester County’s Asian long-horned beetle quarantine zone.

In a first for western Washington, agriculture officials are gearing up to spray insecticide to fight an infestation of Japanese beetles in south King County, near Seattle. The Washington State ...