Hawaii is making an effort to stop the spread of the coconut rhinoceros beetle, an invasive species that is threatening the ...

The beetles can kill coconut trees, palms and other tropical crops like kalo and banana, once they bore into them.

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The coconut rhinoceros beetle has become a more recent alarming threat. Native to Southeast Asia and first detected in Hawaii ...

The Hawaii Department of Agriculture said its ... first detected on Oahu in December 2013 — is a serious pest of palm trees, primarily coconut palms, and can easily damage and kill them by ...

But, according to Serota, CRBs don’t stop at just palm trees. He said the destructive ... Team — administered through the University of Hawaii and funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture ...

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State officials have extended an interim rule restricting the interisland movement of palms and other plant materials to help contain the destructive. The Hawaii Department of Agriculture said its ...

Honolulu’s Dying Palms to Be Replaced With This New Tree — for Now Most of Oahu’s dead and dying coconut trees will not be replaced until the population of voracious coconut rhinoceros ...

For a third day, extreme rainfall pounded the southern Chinese province of Hainan, known as China's "Hawaii", amid the transit of yet another tropical cyclone, leaving the island half-submerged in a ...