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Featured Pest
Red Imported Fire Ant (RIFA)
Solenopsis invicta
Red imported fire ants are an extremely
destructive, highly invasive, and notoriously aggressive stinging ant that is
impossible to eradicate once established. This ant established a foothold in California in 1998. With
the enormous quantity of cargo, and people, arriving in Hawaii from
California, the risk of RIFA becoming the next major severe pest invasion
in Hawaii is high.
The Focus Maui Nui report has been completed. It is now available on their website. Come see what the residents of Maui Nui have said about the future development of Maui Nui.
The Global Invasive Species Programme has re-done their website. Visit to see what is being done about invasive species issues around the world.
The Ho'ike o Haleakala Secondary School Science Curriculum is now available on PBIN, as well as
Hawaiian Ecosystems at Risk site
This NBII site is developed and maintained by the Pacific Basin Information Node
of the U.S. Geological Survey-National Biological Information Infrastructure
