A rhinoceros beetle is a type of scarab beetle. Its horn differentiates it from other beetles. Don’t worry when handling it, though! The rhino beetle is relatively harmless to humans.
Ground beetles are not harmful to humans. In fact, ground beetles actually help keep your garden looking beautiful by eating harmful insects.
Powderpost beetles are the most damaging insect homes after termites. The wood boring powderpost beetle doesn’t do as much long-term damage as termites, but infestations can be very difficult to treat.
Stag beetles are relatively harmless and are easy to handle. The stag beetle’s gigantic jaws are their most distinguishing characteristic.
Bombardier beetles may pose a threat to your backyard. But be careful when handling them! The Bombardier beetle emits a boiling-hot spray that could easily burn skin!
Improper firewood storage can provide a home to unwanted insect pests that suddenly make their presense known when you bring the firewood inside. Learn what you can do to avoid this experience.
Japanese beetle populations rise and fall. The invading adult beetle can do serious damage to garden vegetables and flowers. There seem to be as many opinions on how to control them as there are beetles.
Carpet beetles not only eat carpet but they eat wool, leather, silk, felt, and any other animal based organic material that appeals. Even entomologists hate them because carpet beetles also eat preserved insect collections.
Dung beetles may seem gross, but dung beetles play a very important part in ecology. The world might be a lot more disgusting if dung beetles didn’t do what they do.
Bark beetle infestations are difficult to manage with pesticide treatments. Good cultural practices such as pruning and timely watering seem to offer the best bark beetle methods of control.
Japanese beetles are beautiful metallic green and copper colored insects. They feed on about 300 species of plants devouring leaves and flowers, leaving only the veins so that the foliage looks like lace. Adult Japanese beetles attack
vines and trees, but also tree fruits, row crops and many other plants.
