PUKALANI – The state Department of Agriculture plans to release hundreds of “eating machines” next week to combat the thousands of acres infested with invasive Madagascar fireweed that is harmful to ...

The potential of Colletotrichum dematium f.sp. epilobii (ATCC 20981) to control fireweed (Epilobium angustifolium) was investigated. Under controlled environment conditions, plant age, inoculum ...

COURTESY HAWAII DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE Hawaii scientists will be the first to test out the Madagascan fireweed moth (Secusio extensa) as a biological population control method against fireweed, or ...

Hawaii ranchers are getting buggy, and farming miniature “livestock” is generating a great deal of hope. Hawaii ranchers are getting buggy, and farming miniature “livestock” is generating a great deal ...

U.S. Sen. Daniel Inouye announced Wednesday that the U.S. Department of Agriculture has approved a biocontrol project aimed at slowing the spread of fireweed, or Madagascar ragwort, on the islands of ...

I was planning on writing about Fireweed before the Grizzly Creek fire broke out. Because it is a classic, late-summer flower. Because it is having a hay day on Basalt Mountain after the 2018 fire, as ...