The House of Representatives has passed on second reading a bill to combat the coconut rhinoceros beetle. House Bill 643 ...

HONOLULU–Three live adult coconut rhinoceros beetles (CRB) have been detected in traps in the Waikoloa area on Hawai’i island. The captures during the past week were the first detections of ...

This historic grove and coconuts throughout Hawaii are at risk from the coconut rhinoceros beetle. Photo courtesy Forest and Kim Starr Would-be weavers spilled out of the shade under an open-sided ...

Taylor Piephoff, the Observer’s birding columnist, came across a winged creature so mighty it’s known as the rhinoceros of the beetle world. Piephoff photographed an eastern Hercules beetle at ...