Hawaii is unable to export its unique varieties of sweetpotatoes without quarantine treatment against four high-risk internal pests: West Indian sweetpotato weevil, Euscepes postfasciatus, sweetpotato vine borer, Omphisa ...

The chalcidoid family Eulophidae is primarily entomophagous. However, the family includes a fairly large number of species, particularly in the Tetrastichinae, that are phytophagous, mostly as gall-formers and stem-borers. ...

The attractiveness of methyl eugenol-baited traps to the oriental fruit fly, Bactrocera dorsalis (Hendel), was tested under different conditions; i.e., trap placement, color, and methyl eugenol dosage. The mean number of ...

Conservation of native Hawaiian insects and suppression of invasive species are intrinsically connected propositions. The isolation of the Hawaiian Islands has produced a large endemic insect fauna that is ill equipped ...

Worldwide, ants are a powerful ecological force, and they appear to be dominant components of animal communities of many tropical an temperate ecosystems in terms of biomass and numbers of individuals. However, the biotas ...

Dulinius conchatus Distant, a potential biological control agent of Paederia foetida L., an invasive weed in Hawaii and Florida, was collected in Japan and brought into quarantine for host specificity testing. Testing ...

Ants represent a wholly introduced component of Hawaiian ecosystems. The establishment of roughly 45 ant species over the past two centuries has wide ranging implications for agriculture, other sectors of the economy, and ...

Irradiation is a quarantine treatment option to control ants and other hitchhiker pests on fresh horticultural products exported from Hawaii. The radiotolerance of the bigheaded ant, Pheidole megacephala (F.), was studied ...

The use of synthetic food attractant lures for Tephritid fruit fly trapping is presently being incorporated into U.S. state and federal detection programs. These lures consist of ammonium acetate, trimethylamine hydrochloride ...

Adults of the non-native species, Agonum muelleri (Herbst) (Coleoptera: Carabidae) were collected from the summit of Mauna Kea in 2006 and again during 2008, indicating that a population of this European species is established ...