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 ...

HONOLULU (Island News) -- Hawaii Department of Agriculture officials are implementing interim rules to restrict the movement of the invasive Coconut Rhinoceros Beetle (CRB), after declaring the Island ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

CRAIG T. KOJIMA / CKOJIMA @STARADVERTISER.COM City arborists Monday removed several infested coconut trees at 66-449 Haleiwa Road. 1 /6 CRAIG T. KOJIMA / CKOJIMA @STARADVERTISER.COM City arborists ...

KANEOHE, Hawaii (KHON) — Since 2013, coconut rhinoceros beetles have been attacking palm trees in Hawaii. Residents took the fight against the invasive bugs into their own hands on Saturday. The ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...