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 ...

Szucs advises us to know the life cycle of the beetle. She says this is the only way we will know how to control the pest in our gardens. The current thought is the lily leaf beetle only has one ...

The beetle is among the most diverse insects in the world. There are more than 400,000 known species belonging to the insect ...

Lily beetles have become widespread in Britain and Ireland since the early 1990s. ... the more likely you will break the pest’s life cycle. To keep these beetles under control, ...

"One little lily beetle will lay up to anywhere from 300 eggs and sometimes they will have more than one cycle so it doesn't take very long before they spread," said Ning.