Lizard beetles farm yeast inside bamboo stems for their developing larvae to eat. Scientists have now found that, contrary to other insect-fungus relationships, the job of the yeast in this one does ...

A worryingly high number of Asian bamboo longhorn beetles (Chlorophorus annularis) turn out to have been emerging across Europe for about a century already, finds an international research team, ...

A recent bug find in a section of imported bamboo furniture illustrates how invasive bugs from foreign lands can make their way into U.S. gardens. Ohio State University’s Butler County Extension ...

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