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06/04/19-CATERPILLAR OF RECENTLY INTRODUCED MOTH ON MAUI THREATENS RARE NATIVE PLANTS AND WATERSHEDS
(Lahaina) – When a biologist who was looking for native snails noticed signs of caterpillars feeding on māmaki in Olowalu, he came across a new invasive species. It was a kind of caterpillar he had never seen before; the Arcte coerula (Ramie moth).