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The Hawaii Department of Agriculture, USDA, and University of Hawaii are actively working on eradicating the beetle. [12] Another insect that is threatening Hawaii's economy is the small hive beetle, which has been destroying bee hives and honey production throughout the islands. The infestation does not only harm commercial honey production ...
PHOTO: Sven Spichiger, an entomologist with the Washington state Department of Agriculture, poses for a photo with an Asian giant hornet from Japan mounted on a pin in Olympia, Wash., May 4, 2020.
FILE- A Washington State Department of Agriculture worker holds two of the dozens of Asian giant hornets vacuumed from a tree on October 24, 2020, in Blaine, Washington. (Getty Images) OLYMPIA, Wash.
The murder hornet, formally known as the northern giant hornet, has been eradicated five years after it was first spotted in Washington state, the Washington State Department of Agriculture (WSDA ...
This group of birds historically consisted of at least 51 species. Less than half of Hawaii's previously extant species of honeycreeper still exist. [1] Threats to species include habitat loss, avian malaria, predation by non-native mammals, and competition from non-native birds. [2]
Division of labor within the nests of V. pensylvanica is not sharply defined and is seemingly age-dependent. Within four days of emergence, workers begin foraging for fiber, nectar, water, and prey, larval feeding, construction of envelope and cells, nest sanitation, guarding and colony defense, thermal regulation; and “mauling” or ...
Sepedomerus macropus (liverfluke snail predator fly) [34] Sepedon aenescens (snail-killing fly) [35] Simosyrphus grandicornis (common hover fly) Solenopsis papuana (Papuan thief ant) [36] [37] Sophonia orientalis (two-spotted leafhopper) [38] Tapinoma melanocephalum (ghost ant) Trichomyrmex destructor (Singapore ant) Varroa destructor (Varroa mite)
STAR-ADVERTISER The state Department of Agriculture will receive $1.2 million in funding for coconut rhinoceros beetle response this fiscal year. Pictured are male, left, and female coconut ...