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 ...

Q: I’ve been doing battle with scarlet lily beetles, tapping the adults into hot soapy water. I noticed a few blobs on the leaves and assumed they were either bird droppings or mulch that clung after ...

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 ...

DEAR LINDA: That’s a scarlet lily beetle. As you’ve experienced firsthand, its diet consists of plants in the lily family, especially Asiatic lilies and fritillaries. And the results can be ...

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 ...

Dear Jessica: I’ve been doing battle with scarlet lily beetles, tapping the adults into hot soapy water. I noticed a few blobs on the leaves and assumed they were either bird droppings or mulch that ...