State agriculture officials today confirmed the detection of three live, adult coconut rhinceros beetles in Hawaii island’s Waikoloa area. They are the first adult beetle detections on the island, and ...
Rhinoceros breeding sites sound pretty cool, don't they? Wrong — not when it's invasive coconut rhinoceros beetles setting up shop on the Big Island of Hawaiʻi. Detection teams recently uncovered two ...
Hawaii is stepping up its efforts to stop the spread of the coconut rhinoceros beetle, an invasive species that "jeopardizes the economy, the entire ecosystem, agriculture and food security," ...
Arisa Barcimas, with the Rhinoceros Beetle Response Team, held up a CRB larva. Inside the chopped palms, many living, golf ball-size beetles were found, then killed on-site — including a few summarily ...
HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - An invasive pest has been found in compost bags on Maui, according to the state Department of Agriculture. A single dead coconut rhinoceros beetle was found Monday at a Maui ...