How to Get Rid of Flea Beetles Try this homemade spray to control flea beetles: 2 cups isopropyl alcohol, 5 cups water, and 1 tablespoon liquid soap. Test out the mixture on a leaf of the plant, let it sit overnight, then spray the rest of the plant if you don’t notice any adv...
How long a cicada lives as an adult depends on the species, but the answer could be from a matter of seconds, if the cicada dies due to predation or an accident, to more than a month. Cicadas are primarily subterranean plant (mostly tree) parasites and only enter their above-ground, ad...
Most destruction caused by beetles is from their larvae. Larvae could be found at home, inside sheds, or in other structures containing wood or carpet. The wood-boring beetle can reach a life cycle of up to 10 years, when living in wood, all without any obvious signs. Once you have spo...
How they live... BeetlesIvan Esenko
Anybody who has ever watched a documentary on nesting seabirds might wonder: how do parents relocate their chicks amidst the incessant din of dense breeding colonies? This touches on the more general question of how communication works against a background of noise. Mathevon describes how biologists...
But this small plant's deadly secret isn't its hungry-looking bloom. The real danger lies in the slick, tongue-shaped leaves that nestle close to the ground. Pinguiculameans "little greasy one" in Latin, and the leaves do have a greasy feel. Strangely, the greasy substance is glue, secr...
Many a night, during the mating season, we have high numbers of frogs in the duckweed ponds. We encourage everything here with the exception of cane toads. There are beetles and other aquatic life which have made their way into the ponds on the feet of herons. ...
Japanese beetles live around one year. Eggs hatch in the fall, feed before winter and then overwinter by going deep into the soil below the frost line. In the spring, they will come back up to the top of the soil, pupate to adults and then emerge as the flying pest we all love to...
Here's how to raise your caterpillar to a butterfly or moth. This article gives advice on feeding and caring for your caterpillar.
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