Biologists have curated the red milkweed beetle's genome and its arsenal of genes related to plant-feeding and other biological traits. They sequenced and assembled the entire genome of the ...

WAIKOLOA VILLAGE, Hawaii (Island News) -- On Hawaii Island, efforts have been underway to prevent the spread of the coconut rhinoceros beetle. The invasive insect has been found in Waikoloa village ...

At 2 1/2-inches long and sporting large horns on the front of its head, the coconut rhinoceros beetle is a remarkable-looking creature, but this lumbering giant of an insect is also a devastating pest ...

Tiny beetles that feed on fruit from the palm family may have developed their taste for coconuts long ago, according to a team of scientists studying suspected insect damage in a 60-million-year-old ...

Barbara Francis, owner of Coastline Landscape and Nursery, points out a gaping entry hole made by a coconut rhinoceros beetle the trunk of a palm tree at Coastline Landscape and Nursery on Friday in ...

It’s been just over one year since Lavaloha farmer Daeus Bencomo found telltale signs of Queensland longhorn beetles on his 30 acres of cacao: penny-sized boreholes, the larvae’s sawdust-like waste ...

An invasive beetle is decimating Hawaii's palm tree population, and efforts to stop the destruction of thousands of trees have been nearly impossible. The coconut rhinoceros beetle is an invasive ...

A mating pair of red milkweed beetles pictured in the spring of 2024 on the University of Arkansas campus in Fayetteville. FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — Studying the secrets of how the common red milkweed ...

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – Tiny beetles that feed on fruit from the palm family may have developed their taste for coconuts long ago, according to a Penn State-led team of scientists studying suspected ...