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Luigi Pascioni,
Auto Mechanic
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BLISTER BEETLES Blister beetles are especially dangerous when eaten by horses.
Alfalfa snout beetles are capable of killing virtually all of the alfalfa plants in a field in a single year.
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Miles Rhodes,
Wine Taster
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Beetles are pollinators with a good sense of smell and are attracted to odors of fermentation, spice, and fruit.
Stag beetles can spend over four years in the larval stage and soon or later gardeners in stag beetle rich areas are bound to disturb them.
Beetles eat the spores from infected Red Oaks and pass the Oak Wilt fungus to the new oaks through the wounds.
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Tony Howell,
Skateboarder
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Japanese Beetles flying over your lawn lay thousands of eggs which hatch into hungry grubs that feed on the roots of your grass plants.
The beetles were mass-reared and released throughout the range of alligator weed in northern New Zealand in the early 1980s.
When the beetles attack the pine tree they carry spores of a fungus that quickly colonizes the host and helps bring about the death of the tree.
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Chrissie Tanner,
Homemaker and Mom
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The beetles are still here and now we are seeing a lot of what appears to be the larvae; crawling the floors and in the sinks and falling from the ceilings.
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Shane Kelly,
Bar Tender
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Beetles are the commonest kind of insect, and insects make up one in four of all species of animal on the planet.
These beetles are smaller in size than Rhinoceros Beetles but instead they have brilliant colours from lime green to burnt brown and black.
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David Rosenberg,
Dermatologist
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Beetles and spiders can cause deep bullous lesions that may infect the deeper layers of skin and turn deep colors associated with pain more than itching.
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