Insect Technique News Today

The mound of insects was said to have been “caught in a trap in Sanibel, Florida.”

Center for Biological Diversity: HONOLULU— A federal judge has ruled in favor of conservation groups and the state of Hawai‘i, allowing a project to suppress mosquitos to protect imperiled Hawaiian honeycreepers on east Maui to proceed. The judge found that an environmental assessment was sufficient and a finding of no significant impact correctly issued for the project.

Voters in Florida have approved a trial release of sterile, GM mosquitoes, which could reduce wild populations of disease-carrying ones. There has been tremendous pushback from environmentalists citing unknown consequences. However, there is a successful precedent.

This year, the Aikikiki could become functionally extinct.

I’m excited to announce that the agenda has been officially set for this year’s Grower Day event taking place on June 20 at the Holiday Inn &

Maui Is No Longer Safe For Hawaiis Endangered Birds, Biologists Say - Honolulu Civil Beat New refuges are sought as scientists battle disease-carrying mosquitoes in the face of a changing climate. Reading time: 9 minutes. Mosquitoes have eliminated the last safe place for endangered forest birds on Maui, and the only solution may require releasing millions more mosquitoes. Climate change has made once-uninhabitable higher altitudes now amenable to mosquitoes that infect the kiwikiu, or Maui pa...