European forest cockchafers can damage huge areas of trees. They house microbes in their guts that help them to digest their woody food. Larvae and adult beetles have the same microbial species in ...

The Victorian Racing Club (VRC) says there is no threat to this year's Melbourne Cup carnival despite track damage from a turf beetle. The cockchafer beetles have eaten through the root system of the ...

Gardeners who spend hours ensuring that every blade of grass is the perfect length could be in for a nasty shock. Naturalists are warning of an influx of beetles that feast on lawns - the more ...

This release is available in German. Apart from the common European cockchafer (Melolontha melolontha), the European forest cockchafer (Melolontha hippocastani) is the most common species of the ...

Is this a common beetle? – Peter Murnin, Rostrevor, Co Down It is the violet ground beetle. There were only three reported to the Biodiversity Data Records but that may be because people don't notice ...

Rather than Messerschmitts and Junkers darkening the skies, this time it is a small flying insect that is bugging the Garden of England. Dense formations of cockchafers, an inch-long flying beetle, ...

The cockchafer beetle likes to lay its eggs on perfectly manicured grass, which then devour the blades from the root once they hatch, leaving unsightly brown patches. Naturalists say there has been a ...

Metamorphosis is a fascinating process: A caterpillar or larva, feeding on roots below-ground or leaves above-ground (depending on the species), turns into a butterfly or a beetle after pupation and ...