Check out this new video from our partners at the Big Island Invasive Species Committee. First detected in 2016 in South Kona, by 2021 the twolined spittlebug (TLSB) had impacted more than 175,000 acres of ranchland on the west side of Hawai’i Island. In this documentary from Visual Resonance Media, learn more about how Hawai’i ...
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We have known that invasive species cost money to control in addition to the costs associated with impacts to human health, the economy, and environment, but a global cost estimate has alluded us until now. After five years of study, the international research team directed by scientists from the Écologie, Systématique et Évolution (CNRS / ...
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WHAT IS BIOCONTROL? Classical biological control (biocontrol) is the selection and introduction of a natural enemy of an invasive plant or insect pest which suppresses that pest in its home range, and the “reuniting” of this natural enemy with the invasive pest to provide long-term, cost-effective, and sustainable pest management. There are other forms of ...
Read More How Biocontrol Helps Hawaiʻi ~ New Video!
Check out all the recordings from HISAM 2021 below… WEEK 1: FEATURING TALKS FROM HAWAIʻI ISLAND Monday, February 1 12:00 pm HISAM opening ceremony with Hālau ʻŌhiʻa. Check out the opening ceremony for HISAM 2021: https://www.facebook.com/halauohia/ Tuesday, February 2 6:00 pm – 6:45 pm History of Invasive Species in Hawaiʻi and the impacts on our environment, economy, ...
Read More Now available ~ All HISAM 2021 Presentations