Seen for the first time, an adult cockchafer, or May bug, can cause a bit of a stir ... It looks vicious but is actually a tool for females to lay eggs into the ground.' Adult cockchafers are one of ...

Seed pods become erect as flowers fade, resembling fairytale toadstools or castle turrets. Ideal for gravel gardens and sunny ...

"This means that the forest cockchafer per se, that is, the larva hatching from the egg, e.g. via secretions passed from the mother, already has a basic set of bacterial symbionts which this ...

Cockchafer is also known as maybug or maybeetle ... Keeping grass at a healthy length will discourage female June bugs from laying their eggs in your soil, which will prevent them from next ...

On Twitter, Daniel Ott wrote: 'Urgh, it's cockchafer (May bug ... Females will lay up to 80 eggs about three-quarters of an inch underground, where the grubs will hatch after six weeks and ...

Scientists studied this phenomenon in larvae of the cockchafer (Melolontha melolontha) and their food plant dandelion (Taraxacum officinale). Plants are not entirely at the mercy of their ...

A female common cockchafer will lay up to 80 eggs around 8in underground, where the grubs will hatch after six weeks and feed on roots. In the past week, many people have taken to Twitter to ...

IN the Sudan Gezira, cockchafer grubs (white grubs) of the genus Schizonycha (Melolonthinae) can attack the young roots of sorghum (Sorghum vulgare Pers.), causing wilting, stunting and death with ...