As the 62nd Merrie Monarch Festival begins tomorrow, the Hawaiʻi Department of Agriculture is reminding travelers that quarantine restrictions remain in effect for the transport of ʻŌhiʻa from ...

State officials said rapid ohia death has been detected in three trees at a Maui elementary school campus. The landscape ohia trees were infected with Ceratocystis huliohia, the less virulent ...

Spiders swinging lassos, ants setting deadly traps and turtles with deceiving tongues — these animals have the most cunning methods of hunting their prey.

A possible contributor to this dieback is sapstreak disease caused by Ceratocystis virescens (Davidson) Moreau. Unhealthy trees with considerable crown dieback were evaluated across the western Upper ...

Green dragontail butterfly (Lamproptera meges virescens). PHOTO: GAN CHEONG WEEI The butterfly with transparent wings was usually found near forest streams, a rare habitat in urban Singapore.

We reveal that in the moth Chloridea virescens, the male pheromone consists of three distinct classes of compounds: de novo biosynthesized alcohols, aldehydes, acetates and carboxylic acids that ...

The Xyleborus ferrugineus ambrosia beetle attacks ohia trees infected or recently killed by the fungus Ceratocystis, the causal agent of ohia wilt or rapid ohia death. Frass produced by these ...

Today I’ll cover four plant diseases of concern in our landscapes and woodlands. Like last week, this is certainly not a comprehensive list of plant diseases; instead, it covers newer ones that have ...

In recent years, the interactions between baculoviruses and their insect hosts have become a research focus because baculoviruses can suppress the development and manipulate the behavior of insects.

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - A deadly fungus that impacts native ohia trees was recently detected for the first time in the Waianae mountain range on Oahu, the state Department of Land and Natural ...

A recognized cause of this disease is a fungus, Ceratocystis ficicola, which is transmitted by an ambrosia beetle, Euwallacea interjectus.