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Wang, Koon-Hui

Professor & Chair  


Email:  koonhui@hawaii.edu
Phone:  (808) 956-2455
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Aigbedion-Atalor, Pascal

Assistant Specialist  


Email:  atalor@hawaii.edu
Phone:  (808) 969-8259
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Akahoshi, Kiersten

Junior Extension Agent  


Email:  Kiersten@hawaii.edu
Phone:  (808) 969-8229
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Alvarez, Anne M

Plant Pathologist, Emeritus  


Email:  alvarez@hawaii.edu
Phone:  (808) 956-7764
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Cheng, Zhiqiang

Specialist  


Email:  cheng241@hawaii.edu
Phone:  (808) 956-6416
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Doorenweerd, Camiel

Junior Researcher  


Email:  camiel.doorenweerd@hawaii.edu
Phone:  (808) 956-9123
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Dragich, Mark

Assistant Extension Agent  


Email:  Dragich@hawaii.edu
Phone:  (808) 956-6008
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Grace, J Kenneth

Researcher Emeritus  


Email:  kennethg@hawaii.edu
Phone:  (808) 956
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Hu, John

Plant Pathologist  


Email:  johnhu@hawaii.edu
Phone:  (808) 956-7281
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Jenkins, Daniel

Professor  


Email:  danielje@hawaii.edu
Phone:  (808) 781-1343
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Kawate, Michael K

Emeritus  


Email:  mkawate@hawaii.edu
Phone:  (808)
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Krushelnycky, Paul

Assistant Researcher  


Email:  pauldk@hawaii.edu
Phone:  (808) 956-8261
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Luis, Jane Marian S

Assistant Specialist  


Email:  luisjm@hawaii.edu
Phone:  (808) 956-5305
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Manandhar, Roshan

Associate Extension Agent - Invasive Species  


Email:  roshanm@hawaii.edu
Phone:  (808) 274-3477
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Melzer, Michael J

Researcher  


Email:  melzer@hawaii.edu
Phone:  (808) 956-7887
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Nishijima, Wayne T

Specialist Emeritus  


Email:  waynen@hawaii.edu
Phone:  (808) 981-5199
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Rubinoff, Daniel

Professor  


Email:  rubinoff@hawaii.edu
Phone:  (808) 956-8432
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San Jose, Michael

Junior Researcher  


Email:  mdsjose@hawaii.edu
Phone:  (808) 946-2436
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Sato, Dwight M

Emeritus  


Email:  dwights@hawaii.edu
Phone:  (808) 981-5199
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Shikano, Ikkei

Associate Professor  


Email:  ishikano@hawaii.edu
Phone:  (808) 956-2000
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Sipes, Brent S

Professor Plant Pathology  


Email:  sipes@hawaii.edu
Phone:  (808) 956-7813
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Tay, Jia-Wei

Associate Researcher  


Email:  jwtay@hawaii.edu
Phone:  (808) 956-6744
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Valenzuela, Hector R

Specialist  


Email:  hector@hawaii.edu
Phone:  (808) 956-7903
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Villalobos, Ethel M

Junior Researcher  


Email:  emv@hawaii.edu
Phone:  (808) 956-2445
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Wright, Mark G.

Professor of Entomology and Extension specialist  


Email:  markwrig@hawaii.edu
Phone:  (808) 956-7670
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Zhou, Jing

Assistant Professor  


Email:  zhoujing@hawaii.edu
Phone:  (808) 956-7281
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Planting Basil at Waimanalo


16 May 2018

Africanized Bees

Africanized Bees
Scott Nikaido and Ethel Villalobos (PEPS) just co-authored an article in the Journal of Apicultural Research on the “Detection of Africanized Bees in the Dominican Republic” as part of collaborative work between UH and officials from the Dominican Republic and Costa Rica. As the abstract explains, the distribution of the Africanized honey bee (AHB) in the Caribbean region is “patchy”; some islands, such as Puerto Rico, have tested positive for AHB since the mid 1990s, while other regions, including the Dominican Republic and Haiti, appeared to be free of AHB. However, the authors have confirmed, through molecular testing of mitochondrial genetic material, that AHB is now present in managed colonies in the Dominican Republic. Results show that 39% of the colonies sampled displayed the African haplotype, and 73% of apiaries had at least one Africanized colony. Six out of the eight provinces surveyed (excluding Santo Domingo and Dajabón) tested positive for the presence of AHB colonies. The results indicate that currently AHB may be more prevalent in the northwest region of the country, though a more intensive survey is needed to confirm countrywide prevalence of the African genotype and to examine the situation in neighboring Haiti.
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