Beetles are some of the most diverse animals in the world, with around 400,000 known species living in a wide variety of habitats. They are famed for their particularly hard exoskeleton and powerful ...

Every other day inside a lab on the third floor of the St. John Plant Science Laboratory building on the University of Hawaii at Manoa campus, doctoral student Kristen Gaines opens up a refrigerator ...

The Department of Agriculture and Biosecurity will move forward with starting an interim rule-making process to combat the ...

Q: I found this critter one evening near an outdoor light at a feed store. It was banging into the light repeatedly. It didn’t hurt my skin when I picked it up and it didn’t try to bite me. What is ...

HONOLULU (KHON2) – On Monday, a dead coconut rhinoceros beetle was found in a bag of compost at a big-box store on Maui leading to the question of what the status of this invasive pest is being that ...

The state Department of Agriculture established a new interim rule on Wednesday to help stop the movement of the coconut rhinoceros beetle, three weeks after a dead beetle was found among compost bags ...

Rhinoceros beetles are one of the most popular large beetle species. It’s relatively easy to care for these fascinating and visually appealing insects. Their owners love them because of their ...

Ph.D. student and research assistant Kristen Gaines injected a virus into a coconut rhinoceros beetle larva at UH-Manoa’s St. John Plant Science Laboratory on Thursday. Michael Melzer is the ...