beetles

Judy Lehrer Jacobs describes and photographs the annual Neponset River release of Galerucella beetles, which, if they live long and prosper, will begin to eat away at the purple loosestrife that is choking local waterways.

Jennifer Forman Orth introduces us to the whitespotted sawyer beetle, which people sometimes confuse with the dread Asian Longhorned Beetle, and which is now emerging from wherever it is they emerge in the springtime. She provides a handy guide to telling the two apart.