A koa bug and 225,000 other insects are part of the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa’s Insect Museum, which is one of 30 collections in the university’s Virtual Museum.

UH scientists study historical records and caterpillar parasites in a search for what triggers and tempers outbreaks of an indigenous moth that defoliates koa trees.

Creating positive family environments.

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Mauna Loa, an anthurium developed at the Univeristy of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa’s College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources, won a Red Ribbon in the Society of American Florists’ 2008 Outstanding Varieties Competition.

A College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources paper was one of 13 awarded a U.S. Department of Agriculture Bioenergy Awareness Days Grand Challenge Award in June 2008.

Researchers measure the vitamin content and decode a genome in SunUp papaya.

Kāʻu is Hawaiʻi’s new specialty coffee.