Ask any vegetable gardener about beans and pull up a chair. Some grow lima beans, dry beans or wax beans but almost every home garden has a patch of green beans. Beans grow quickly and don't need much ...

NASHUA, Iowa --The discovery that bean leaf beetles can infect soybeans with soybean mosaic virus has complicated managing for the pest, says Marlin Rice, Iowa State University Extension entomologist.

A lot of my crops have been harvested. The onions and garlic are in and curing. Except for some remnants the potatoes are out. The peas have long been eaten and the first few plantings of green beans, ...

I'm wondering if you had any ideas as to how I could treat the little beetles that are chewing my green bean plants? I really don't want to use chemicals if at all possible. A: That's most likely the ...

Though their life cycles differ, soybean aphids and bean leaf beetles can both pose significant threats to emerging soybeans due to the timing of their own emergence. Although the first bean leaf ...

Q: Something is chewing my lima bean leaves. What should I look for, and how do I treat it? A: It’s probably Mexican bean beetles, which feed on all types of bean plants and can have between one and ...

Mexican bean beetles are especially problematic in the rainy areas of the East, and tend to pose fewer problems in dry climates. This article is part of ourOrganic Pest Control Series, which includes ...

When I was a kid, I hated picking beans. It was hot, humid, and eventually, I was sunburned from picking them. The work was intense, because my sister and I put off picking them until the bounty was ...

It is important to keep a watchful eye out for the two-spotted spider mite, especially as we head into some very hot and dry weather in the near term. Because we are well ahead of schedule this spring ...

The Mexican bean beetle (Epilachna varivestis) has flown under the research radar too long, despite the fact that it has been ravaging U.S. crops for almost a century, according to Louis Nottingham, ...

Now I’m not generally a betting gal, but I would bet that most of you reading this are unfamiliar with bean beetles. (Am I right?) Well, bean beetles, or more properly Callosobruchus maculates, get ...