Midway Atoll has gone to the birds. Every year 3 million seabirds flock to 1,500 acres of land 1200…
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Invasive Plants
A Haʻiku gulch full of suprises
“Anything that bristly has got to be invasive,” said the Haʻiku resident who reported a vine that she found in…
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Christmas berry’s unwelcome presence
Covered in glossy green leaves and bedecked with red berries, the invasive shrub, Schinus terebinthifolius, is commonly known by the…
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Invasive plants=Less water
When rain falls from the sky by the bucket-load it can be tempting to take water for granted, but the…
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And then the pollinator wasp arrived…
Lori Buchanan, manager of Moloka‘i/Maui Invasive Species Committee (MoMISC), was in downtown Kaunakakai recently when she saw something strange sprouting…
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“Devil weed” sneaks into Hawaii
They saw the pitchfork leaf pattern and knew something was amiss. The unmistakable smell of turpentine in a crushed leaf only…
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