With over 200 vibrant color photographs, this book is a brilliant presentation of one of the most unique insect faunas anywhere on Earth.

This work establishes the means to identify the nearly 130 species of Hawaiian carabid beetles of the tribe Platynini, which constitutes a monophyletic radiation. The native Hawaiian platynines represent almost half of the carabid fauna, and this volume is the first of three intended books that will taxonomically treat all of the native and introduced carabid species found in the Hawaiian Islands. In addition to presenting identification keys, diagnostic characters, habitus photos, and distribution maps for Hawaiian Platynini, an introductory section details the history of carabid beetle study in Hawaii and provides a key to the tribes of native and introduced Hawaiian Carabidae.

As both individuals and societies, we are making decisions today that will have profound consequences for future generations. From preserving Earth's plants and animals to altering our use of fossil fuels, none of these decisions can be made wisely without a thorough understanding of life's history on our planet through biological evolution. Companion to the best selling title Teaching About Evolution and the Nature of Science, Evolution in Hawaii examines evolution and the nature of science by looking at a specific part of the world. Tracing the evolutionary pathways in Hawaii, we are able to draw powerful conclusions about evolution's occurrence, mechanisms, and courses. This practical book has been specifically designed to give teachers and their students an opportunity to gain a deeper understanding of evolution using exercises with real genetic data to explore and investigate speciation and the probable order in which speciation occurred based on the ages of the Hawaiian Islands. By focusing on one set of islands, this book illuminates the general principles of evolutionary biology and demonstrate how ongoing research will continue to expand our knowledge of the natural world.

The authors of the popular and informative What Bit Me? Identifying Hawaii's Stinging and Biting Insects and their Kin answer these and other questions in this long-awaited standard reference on Hawaii's household "bugs." What's Bugging Me? helps you identify those ants, spiders, termites, beetles, silverfish, and cockroaches that invade your home and offers effective strategies for dealing with them. A range of anti-pest weapons--not just chemicals--is given, emphasizing a modern "integrated control" approach. What's Bugging Me? teaches techniques for prevention, early detection, and monitoring of pest problems. It recommends specific methods that target the pest, not methods that merely poison the environment. Many inexpensive home remedies are suggested. In every-day language accessible to homeowners and apartment dwellers, the authors provide a wealth of authoritative information that will also benefit pest control operators, landscapers, builders, and entomology professionals.

This reference covers the stinging and biting insects, spiders, mites, ticks, and their relatives commonly encountered by humans and pets in Hawai'i. In language understandable by nonscientists, the authors explain the history, life cycle, structure, and venoms and toxins known for each pest species. They provide descriptions to help you recognize what has bitten or stung you and to help you distinguish insects that are nuisances from those that are potentially dangerous. They also discuss how to treat bites and stings safely. What Bit Me? belongs on every home medical bookshelf. It contains information essential to parents, anyone who works with children, hikers, gardeners, agricultural workers, and especially health professionals. Book jacket.

Part 1. Introduction to macadamia pest management Insect growth and development; Types of insect damageHow insects become pests; Integrated pest managementEconomic thresholds, economic injury levels;Natural control vs. biological control; Natural enemiesBiological control: Types, Success rates for classical biologicalcontrol, Environmental concerns;Monitoring programs: Importance, Definitions, Design of monitoringand methods, Types of samples, Data recording;Insecticide and miticide application: Orchard handguns, Backpackmist blowers, Air-blast sprayers, Aerial application, Inspectionand calibration, Spray solution pH, Hazard to beesPesticide regulations Part 2. Horticultural factors important inintegrated pest management Flowering and fruiting patterns; Nut maturation processNormal harvest operations; Modified harvest operationsCultivar susceptibility; Fertilizer; Pruning; PollinationAlternate hostes, ground covers; Management of pests in nurseries Part 3. Major pest insects Overview of pest statusPatterns of damage Tropical nut borer History; Life cycle and description; Identification; Alternate hosts;Damage; Time of damage; Monitoring; Cultivar susceptibilitySticktight nuts; Management strategies: General, Harvestmodification, Early season, harvest, Mechanical harvest, Use of ethephon, Natural enemies, Use of pesticidesNew orchard management; Economics of pest controlGeneral trends Southern green stinkbug History; Life cycle and description; Life history in macadamiaorchards; Alternate hosts; Damage; Time and location ofdamage; Monitoring; Cultivar susceptibility;Management strategies;Natural enemies; Chemical control Koa seedworm, Litchi fruit moth History; Life history; Identification;Alternate host plants; Damage;Monitoring: Adult sampling, Distribution ofeggs and damage in the canopy, Sampling larvae and damage; Cultivarsusceptibility; Managementstrategies; Behavior-modifying chemicals;Natural enemies; Chemical control Part 4. Secondary pests Broad mite, Red and black flat mite, Katydids, Redbanded thrips, Hawaiianflower thrips, Black citrus aphid Part 5. Pests of macadamia not yet found in Hawaii Macadamia felted coccid, Fruitspotting bug, Banana-spottingbug, Macadamia leafminer, Macadamia flower caterpillar, Macadamia twig girdler, Twospotted bug, Yellowspotted bug, False coddling moth, Macadamianut borer, Leafcutting ants Appendixes: Heat-driven phenology models;Sequential sampling examples; Monitoring tools;Insect classification;Insects identified on macadamia in HawaiiGlossary of termsFurther readings and referen

It is not often that one has the opportunity to send a public birthday greet ing to a friend and colleague of many years, and to congratulate him on having reached the age of reason. In fact it happens only once, and comes then as a surprise. Surely it was only a few years ago that we sat together at an International Genetics Congress in Ithaca, and only yesterday that we became members of the same department. The eighth floor of Schermerhorn Hall had a north end where the flies were and a south end furnished with mice, and in between, a seminar room and laboratory. There the distances were short and the doors open and the coffee pot busy. But it now appears that yesterday has fallen thirty years behind and that we have grown up. I find it interesting and appropriate that Dobzhansky's lifetime spans the period of maturation of the fields to which this volume is devoted. This is true in a chronological sense for his birth occurred in the same year, 1900, in which modern genetics began. The rediscovery of Mendel's princi ples and the interpretation of the nature of heredity and variation to which this event led were necessary prerequisites to the development of evolution ary biology as presented in this collection of essays.

"A combined history of the Hawaiian islands and the native Kamehameha butterfly up to and including current-day efforts of Hawaiʻi's Pulelehua Project, a group of professional and citizen scientists working to restore the butterfly's declining habitats and population. An Afterword with additional information, photographs, and source list is included"--