Back in 2009, a father and his two kids, still wet from the beach, walked into the office of the…
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2017
Māmalu Poepoe Project traps and monitors invasive pests
Since Polynesian times, people have unwittingly carried plants and animals with them as they traveled to Hawaiʻi. Ants and skinks…
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Yellow-faced bees defenseless and vulnerable to predatory ants
Somewhere between 400,000 and 700,000 thousand years ago–about the time Haleakalā was forming–a tiny bee arrived in the Hawaiian Islands….
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Removing invaders can help decrease damage from hurricanes
Hurricane Harvey didn’t just bring floodwaters to Texas; it also spread a plague of stinging ants. Red imported fire ants…
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Why can’t you keep rabbits on the ground? “Rabbit fever” affects people
Several years ago, a researcher working with sparrows at a rabbit farm on Maui fell ill. He was feverish and…
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