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 ...

The Board of Agriculture and Biosecurity plans to move ahead with new measures to limit the spread of invasive coconut ...

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

Golden tortoise beetles do not look like real beetles. But they do exist and are plentiful throughout North America.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Every other day inside a lab on the third floor of the St. John Plant Science Laboratory building on the University of Hawaii at ...

A Hawaii without palm trees is hard to imagine. They are part of the landscape that travelers associate with the Islands before they are on the plane — framing pink and fiery sunsets in photos, and ...

A new restaurant plans to replace the now-closed Flying Rhino Cafe on Worcester’s Shrewsbury Street. The business, Mercado Restaurant, will open “soon” at 278 Shrewsbury St., the former home of Flying ...

Combatants in the war against the coconut rhinoceros beetle on the Big Island said Wednesday night that their fight is still an effort to eradicate the pest on Hawaii Island, as opposed to managing ...

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 ...

WORCESTER – The Flying Rhino restaurant on Shrewsbury Street has closed for good. The owners said they are nearing a deal to sell the business. In a social media post on Thursday, June 19, the owners ...

Flying Rhino Cafe & Watering Hole, an eatery at 278 Shrewsbury St. in Worcester in operation since 2000, has closed its doors after the property was sold to the former owners of Altea’s Eatery and ...

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