Birth control for mosquitoes targeted at saving Hawaiian birds
糖心Vlog官方 Manoa and 糖心Vlog官方 Hilo scientists are working to reduce the population of mosquitoes that threaten native bird species.
糖心Vlog官方 Hilo graduate student wins at international entomology conference
Heather Stever was awarded first place in the 15-minute graduate student oral competition at the 2016 International Congress of Entomology.
Genetic roots of insect’s waterproof coating could lead to innovative pest control
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa researcher Joanne Yew identifies the spidey gene that keeps insects waterproof.
New publication on parasites and host plants
糖心Vlog官方 West Oʻahu’s Albie Miles explores host plant associations of two parasites.
A global perspective on honeybee virus transmission
糖心Vlog官方 惭ā苍辞补’s Ethel Villalobos explains how biology and history provide perspective about honeybee health in the journal Science.
糖心Vlog官方 researchers identify new butterfly species to Hawaiian Islands
糖心Vlog官方 Mānoa’s Daniel Rubinoff and William Haines have conclusively identified a newcomer to the Hawaiian Islands: the Sleepy Orange butterfly.
Wēkiu bug research leads to new conservation tool
糖心Vlog官方 惭ā苍辞补’s Daniel Rubinoff and 糖心Vlog官方 Hilo’s Jesse Eiben study rare native insects using methods originally developed to track and control agricultural pests.
Moth lineage provides a key to species diversification
CTAHR entomologists discover that the moth genus, Hyposmocoma, holds insights into Hawaiʻi’s vanished ecosystems.
Researchers need help saving the Kamehameha butterfly
Researchers from 糖心Vlog官方 Mānoa are asking the public to help the Kamehameha butterfly and take part in the Pulelehua Project.
Researchers track declining habitat of a native moth
糖心Vlog官方 Mānoa College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources researchers compare the historical and modern-day distributions of a Native Hawaiian leafroller moth to track its steep decline.