It's that time of year again: ladybugs and lady beetles are swarming Wisconsin, looking for spots to hibernate for the winter. Wisconsin sees dozens of species of small beetles in the fall, but the ...

How much grumbling Wisconsin gardeners do about Japanese beetle damage this summer will likely depend on where they live. Ten or 15 years ago, the destructive insects were mostly a problem in the ...

MILWAUKEE (CBS 58) — You may remember when cicadas were popping out of the ground and buzzing up a storm in communities. Well now there's a new swarming insect impacting southeast Wisconsin, and it ...

MADISON (WKOW) -- Drowned out by the buzz surrounding the emerging cicada brood, Wisconsin’s bugs have been having a big moment this spring. UW-Madison Extension Entomologist PJ Liesch spends much of ...

MADISON, Wis. (WBAY) - The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources is asking people to watch for another invasive insect. The Asian longhorned beetle has established itself in other states, as close ...

With the Fourth of July comes not just backyard barbecues and fireworks but Japanese beetles, too. The green and copper-colored beetles with an appetite that’s destructive to hundreds of plants are ...

If you've ventured outdoors recently, you might have noticed an unusual amount of ladybugs — or perhaps insects that appear to be ladybugs but differ in a few subtle ways. As temperatures start to ...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The tree-killing emerald ash borer has now spread to every county in Wisconsin, state officials said Friday. The state Department of Natural Resources said agency staff responded ...

MADISON, Wis. -- Emerald ash borers are tree-decaying beetles native to Asia. According to Wisconsin's Department of Natural Resources, the bugs are destroying ash trees in the Badger State. Ash trees ...

MADISON (AP) &#8212 Minnesota and Iowa agriculture officials braced for the emerald ash borer's arrival Tuesday after Wisconsin biologists discovered the tree-eating beetle on the Mississippi River's ...