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 ...

Hawaiʻi island residents have been tracking coconut rhinoceros beetles' destruction throughout the islands. Fearing the same for their home, they're urging the state to move faster.

The Hawaiʻi Wildlife Fund and Pōhaku Pelemaka submitted a joint petition earlier this month asking for officials to regulate ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The pet of choice in Japan, as much as cuddly kitties and playful puppies, is the humble bug. The bug has been a key part of Japanese culture from the Heian era classic “The Tale of Genji” to popular ...

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 ...

The Japanese rhinoceros beetle Trypoxylus dichotomus is a large insect native to Asia, characterized by the large horn of the male. A research team led by Professor Teruyuki Niimi at the National ...