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Updates

January-March 2022

Summary: https://mailchi.mp/hawaii.edu/ze58k8vk3c

October-December 2021

Summary: https://mailchi.mp/hawaii.edu/misc-newsletter-october-december-2021-updates

July-September 2021

Summary: https://mailchi.mp/hawaii.edu/updates-from-misc-july-september-2021

April-June 2021

Summary:  https://mailchi.mp/hawaii.edu/misc-newsletter-april-2021-june-2021

January-March 2021

Summary: https://mailchi.mp/hawaii.edu/misc-quarterly-update-january-march-2021

October-December 2020

Summary: https://mailchi.mp/hawaii.edu/misc-update-for-oct-dec2020

Outreach and Education Update: October – December 2020
Early Detection Crew Update: October – December 2020
Molokai/Maui Invasive Species Committee Update: October – December 2020
Hāna Plant Crew Update: October – December 2020
Pāʻia Plant Crew Update: October – December 2020
Little Fire Ant Crew Update: October – December 2020
Community Coqui Control Program Update: October – December 2020
Coqui Crew Update: October – December 2020

August-September 2020

Summary: https://mailchi.mp/hawaii.edu/misc-update-for-augsept2020

Plant Crew – September 2020
Rapid ʻŌhiʻa Death response: In response to community reports, Mike Ade collected two samples for possible Rapid ʻŌhiʻa Death: one ...
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Molokai/Maui Invasive Species Committee -September 2020
Removing upside-down jellyfish from Kaunakakai harbor sometimes takes partners, as when DLNR divers helped out several years ago. The Molokai ...
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Coqui Crew – September 2020
From July through September, the coqui crew worked throughout Haʻikū on populations of frogs near the Kauhikoa Reservoir, the Five ...
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Community Coqui Control Progam – September 2020
All four of the Haʻikū neighborhoods involved in the MISC Community Coqui Control Program held work weeks during August. One ...
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Early Detection, Outreach, and Education – September 2020
Early Detection:No news is good news, at least from the early detection team. Forest and Kim Starr surveyed the Kahului ...
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Little Fire Ant Crew – September 2020
Little fire ants can climb and so can our crew. Paul Moneymaker scales a steep hillside while surveying for little ...
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April-May 2020

Summary: https://mailchi.mp/hawaii.edu/misc-update-for-aprilmay-2020

Plant Crew – April/May 2020
MoMISC – April/May 2020
Little Fire Ants – April/May 2020
Coqui – April/May 2020
Outreach – April/May 2020

Older PDF newsletters:

2013 MISC Newsletter-Biocontrol
2012 MISC Newsletter-Little Fire Ant

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Maui Invasive Species Committee (MISC)
Office: (808) 573-6472
Press and Media Inquiries: (808) 344-2756
Mailing Address:
PO Box 983, Makawao, HI 96768

Acting Manager / Public Relations: Lissa Strohecker
E-mail: miscpr@hawaii.edu

Special Projects: Teya Penniman
E-mail: miscmgr@hawaii.edu

Statewide Pest Hotline: 808-643-PEST
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