Tobias Koehler, director of the McBryde and Allerton gardens, said their priority is protecting loulu palm. The roughly 700-tree collection comprises all but one of the 27 loulu species found on Earth ...

Participating in the annual Great Backyard Bird Count is easy, fun to do, and can be done anywhere you find birds.

First discovered in October 2023 in Waikoloa, the invasive coconut rhinoceros beetle continues to make a showing on Hawaii Island, the latest being on March 4 in traps at the National Energy ...

What looked like a pearl necklace on a tiny spider turned out to be parasitic mite larvae. Scientists identified the mites as a new species, marking the first record of its family in Brazil. The ...

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But this year, Joshua trees throughout Southern California have bloomed early, potentially disrupting this precise timeline.

Forestry officials in the US are releasing non-native species of parasitic wasps into our forests by the thousands, but there ...

A novel UF study found the thrips had another trick up its sleeve. Females can reproduce without a male, giving birth to an ...

They found microplastics where almost nothing lives. The discovery inside Antarctica’s insect changes everything.

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 ...

This image shows the coconut rhinoceros beetle larvae detected in plants shipped from Oahu to Lanai. Photo courtesy Department of Agriculture and Biosecurity Since May, officials report there have ...

Signs of the invasive coconut rhinoceros beetle have for the first time been reported on the island of Lanai. The state Department of Agriculture and Biosecurity, or DAB, said Pulama Lanai found the ...