Brilliant orange and fluttering through the forest, the Kamehameha butterfly, or pulelehua, is our state insect. It’s one of only…
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Kia'i Moku Column
Rapid ʻŌhiʻa Death – a new threat to our watersheds
Five years ago, people living in the Puna district on Hawaiʻi Island started seeing native ʻōhiʻatrees in their yards dying….
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Invasive species can sting aloha
Aunty Penny Martin is a lei-maker on Molokaʻi. She was talking story one day with a friend visiting from Hawaiʻi…
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Got Guano?
When horticulturalists at Maui Nui Botanical Gardens want to give an extra boost to their most sensitive and critically endangered…
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Look closely—the endemic insects of Haleakalā
The flightless moth of Haleakalā is one of the more dramatic examples of evolution in Hawaiian insects. Known to science…
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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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