A recent trip to Hilo highlighted the impact coqui frogs can have on our quality of life. It was not…
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News & Updates
Get involved! Help survey for Little Fire Ants Saturday, October 22.
Little fire ants (LFA) are devastating communities across the Pacific. Passive and deceitfully small in size, these South American imports…
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Residents urged to report unusual stinging fire ants
An infestation of the much-dreaded little fire ant (LFA), Wasmannia auropunctata, was discovered on a farm in Waihee, Maui, in…
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Positive spin on invasive species by artists, chefs
One day I was pulling a weed and I realized there was a little grain of hostility there toward this…
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Biocontrol precision is weapon against invaders
Last month I began to present my point of view as a conservation scientist relevant to current “controversy” over biocontrol…
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Strawberry guava sows seeds of infestation
When I came to Maui 28 years ago to work as a research biologist at Haleakala National Park, one of…
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