Q. Every summer the ripening fruit on our fruit trees gets chewed on by those big green beetles before we can even harvest it. We even find them on our flowers. How can we get rid of them? A. Every ...

Q: What bug is this? It’s in and around the figs. A: That is a green fruit beetle (Cotinis mutabilis). They are also called fig beetles for obvious reasons. They are big, green, and often mistaken for ...

Q: Since there are so many fig beetles this year, I wonder if I need to treat the soil with nematodes to stop the larvae from eating my vegetable roots. What do you advise? A: The fig beetle (Cotinus ...

Here in Arizona, the monsoon rains will trigger another burst of fresh vegetation in summer, and with it many new species of Insects will emerge. The Iron Cross Beetle, Tegrodera aloga These flashy ...

Q: What bug is this? It’s in and around the figs. A: That is a green fruit beetle (Cotinis mutabilis). They are also called fig beetles for obvious reasons. They are big, green, and often mistaken for ...

There's a little black bug that shows up in the vegetable garden this time of year. It often gets blamed for something it didn't do. Those little critters are sap beetles. Sap beetles have a hard, ...