#Coconut rhinoceros beetle makes unexpected ‘host shift’ to Guam’s cycad trees
“#Coconut rhinoceros beetle makes unexpected ‘host shift’ to Guam’s cycad trees” Coconut rhinoceros beetle adult and frass extracted from a burrow within the cataphylls of a Cycas micronesica stem apex. Cycad cataphylls are modified leaves designed to protect the massive stem apex. Credit: University of Guam Western Pacific Tropical Research Center Researchers at the Western…