WAUSAU - One fiery red insect is eating Marathon County residents out of their lilies and gardens. Known for its scarlet red coloring and black limbs, the half-inch, oblong-shaped lily leaf beetle has ...

Yardwork is going slowly but purposefully. I thought I’d been diligent about following my notes from last season, but I slipped up and forgot to check the lilies when they began to emerge. Last season ...

A reader, Carolyn West, sent me an e-mail recently reporting with dismay that the lily leaf beetle had been discovered in her neighborhood in Hartford’s West End. She treated the news about the same ...

True lilies such as 'Mrs. R.O. Backhouse' can be severely damaged by lily leaf beetles, a relatively new pest in Central New York. The insects have been spreading from New England, where they were ...

ST PAUL, Minn. — An invasive insect that feeds on lilies and other popular plants has been discovered in Minnesota for the first time. The Minnesota Department of Agriculture (MDA) says a St. Paul ...

The lily, native around the world in the temperate parts of the northern hemisphere, has been an important cultural icon for millennia. Depending where you stand on the globe, it can represent ...

If you love your lilies in your garden, you may be living a gardening nightmare. The lily leaf beetle is eating its way across Michigan’s lilies. It’s been said we need to know our enemy. There are ...

Many gardeners across New York state have given up on growing lilies, thanks to the lily leaf beetle, which has devastated the plants in many areas statewide, across the Northeast and in Canada. But ...

It is now time to look for the adult lily leaf beetle, an invasive pest, which enjoys eating and destroying ornamental lily plants. The adults measure about a quarter inch long and are bright scarlet ...