If your plants' leaves are looking lacy—or you're seeing patches of dead grass in your lawn—Japanese beetles may be to blame.

The head is bent downward giving the insect a strongly humped appearance. Adult beetles may wander away from infested products but the fuzzy, yellowish-white larvae are found only in infested items.

Science Magazine reports that the species of beetle in question, called Angimordella burmitina, is related to a modern species of beetles that pollinate flowers.

The insects especially like Rose of Sharon (Hibiscus syriacus) cultivars, which can grow up to 10 feet tall and wide. You're also more likely to see Japanese beetles thrive in gardens in the ...

According to a study published on Monday in the journal PNAS, a pollen-covered beetle has helped fill a significant gap in the fossil record, deepening the history of insect pollination by nearly 50 ...

In the Amazon, beetles and flowering trees have developed a tight bond. Hundreds of beetle species thrive off of and pollinate blossoms, helping to maintain some of the highest biodiversity on Earth.

Sexually deceptive flowers trick flies into “mating” with them Beetle daisies evolved weird fly-like shapes to fool pollinators. Biologists now know how this odd trick evolved ...

One of Australia's largest groups of flower species is named after a wealthy British slave-trader. And Nazi memorabilia collectors have almost sent "Hitler's beetle" extinct. Is it time for a ...

NEW YORK — Volkswagen’s third-generation Beetle, which made its world debut simultaneously last month in New York, Shanghai and Berlin, can once again be called the people’s car as t ...