Alfalfa snout beetle was found last fall in a new, more northern area of Clinton County. Because alfalfa snout beetle is such a unique pest, only found in northern New York and southern Canada, Elson ...

Scientists have found naturally occurring pathogenic fungi infecting the Eucalyptus snout beetle in Eucalyptus forest plantations, and characterized them to develop a bio-pesticide for controlling the ...

A new alfalfa variety with some resistance against the alfalfa snout beetle, which has ravaged alfalfa fields in nine northern New York counties and across the St. Lawrence River in Canada, has been ...

GREAT BEND, N.Y. -- Each spring, tens of millions of alfalfa snout beetles rise from the soil to continue their slow, methodical march across upstate New York, laying waste to fields of alfalfa in a ...

The eucalyptus snout beetle – a species named for its habit of defoliating the flowering plant – has been officially identified in Ecuador for the first time. The discovery suggests that the insect is ...

A gallery at the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History is crawling with beetles: snout beetles, also called weevils; ground beetles, which live in dirt; scarab beetles, as shiny as metal; stag ...

The bugs were passed out on Saturday at Everglades Holiday Park, 10 to a person. U.S. Rep. E. Clay Shaw went first. Plucking a grayish-black snout beetle from his plastic box, Shaw slipped the bug ...

Call it New York's Most Unwanted List -- a collection of invasive species, from the 1.5-inch Asian longhorn beetle (above) that threatens to wipe out millions of trees to the nondescript slender false ...

GULFPORT, Miss. (WLOX) - Two pests never before seen in Mississippi were recently discovered in fruit shipments at the Port of Gulfport. The beetles were found in March by U.S. Customs and Border ...