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Reports on the use of beetles to control purple loosestrife in the United States, and how purple loosestrife, which is not endemic to the US, has become ecologically detrimental to certain US ecosystems.

Focuses on the efforts of Chicago, Illinois to rid itself of the Asian long-horn beetles which are ravaging the city's maple trees. Why cutting down the infected trees is the only way to get rid of the beetles; The desire of many Chicago residents to have the trees replaced after they are cut down; Efforts by the city to gain federal funding to help defray the cost of tree replacement.

Offers various news briefs as of August 23, 1999. Sale of the black diamond beetle in Japan; How an Englishman herded his sheep over the Thames River on the Tower Bridge; Plans of certain states to raise or lower taxes.