text:  Bugs. Canoe bugs. You've probably heard of canoe plants. They were brought to Hawaii by early Polynesian voyagers. Included things like taro and the breadfruit, sweet potato, medicinal plants. But they may have been having some extra passengers. Insects are what some researchers are calling canoe bugs. Judd Wynn is a researcher who has joined a project in the Pacific called the Darwin 200 Voyage.