• Rose chafer

    Published on July 31, 2015
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  • European brown rot

    Monilinia laxa is a plant pathogen that is the causal agent of brown rot of stone fruits.

  • European red mite

    Adult female European red mites are less than 0.5 mm and dark red with eight legs. Adult males are smaller than the females and have a pointed abdomen. Males are usually dull green to brown.

  • Spring grub damage on golf course roughs and home lawns

    Published on May 1, 2009

  • European fruit scale

    The female is immobile and covered with a circular waxy shell that becomes dark gray over time and is elevated at the center. The adult male is brownish red with an elongated abdomen, long antennae and wings.

  • Watch for grub problems in home lawns this fall

    Published on September 5, 2008

  • Managing grubs in Christmas trees

    Published on May 16, 2008

  • European corn borer

    Adult is a pale yellowish brown moth with irregular darker bands running in wavy lines across wings male is distinctly darker than the female.

  • European fruit lecanium (Brown apricot scale)

    The adult female scale is nearly hemispherical and shiny brown, with several ridges along the back. Nymphs are light colored.

  • European crane flies observed around lawns and homes in southern Michigan

    Published on May 22, 2017
    European crane fly adults have been observed during the last three to four weeks. Here are some tips to prevent turf damage.

  • European apple sawfly

    The adult looks similar to a small, orange-brown wasp with the ventral side and legs orange in color. It has transparent wings with many veins. The egg, oval and translucent, is inserted into the receptacle of the flower.

  • European earwig

    European earwig

  • Rose chafer management for vineyards

    Published on June 13, 2017
    These damaging beetles are being reported around the state.

  • Managing grubs in the home lawns

    Published on June 25, 2010
    Unlike the Japanese beetle, you would not know this insect is in your landscape because it does not feed on plants as an adult beetle but has emerged from the soil to mate and lay eggs.

  • Rose chafer management for northwest vineyards

    Published on June 15, 2021
    Michigan's small fruit crops can be affected by the rose chafer beetles because adults can eat plant tissue in massive amounts.

  • European Hornbeam

    Published on March 11, 2016
    A quick reference guide about European Hornbeam, Carpinus betulus ‘Fastigiata’.

  • Japanese beetle

    Japanese beetles can be present from June through September. Japanese beetle adults are metallic green or greenish bronze with reddish wing covers and several white spots near the abdomen tip and along the sides. Larvae are larger C-shaped grubs that live in the soil.

  • European Paper Wasp

    European Paper Wasp

  • Discussion about European Corn Borer

    Published on June 6, 2019

    The June 6, 2019 MSU Extension Field Crops Virtual Breakfast featured a discussion on European corn borer, presented by Chris DiFonzo, MSU Field Crops Entomologist.

  • Green June beetle

    The adult is velvet green dorsally with yellow-orange margins on the elytra. Ventrally it is a shiny metallic green mixed with orangish yellow. The larva is a large, C-shaped grub that lives in the soil and is not found in the trees.