HONOLULU (KHON2) — State and county legislators met at Kapalama Elementary School on Tuesday to address the statewide infestation of the coconut rhinoceros beetle. Lawmakers said everyone needs to be ...

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 ...

Sporting a horn on your head two-thirds the length of your body might seem like a drag. For the rhinoceros beetle, though, massive head-weapons are no big deal. Turns out, pitchfork-shaped protrusions ...

LIHUE, Hawaii (KHON2) — A Kauai councilmember is sounding the alarm on the coconut rhinoceros beetle, calling it an an “all hands on deck” emergency. She says the destructive beetle has been spotted ...

A dead coconut rhinoceros beetle was found in September among compost bags at a big-box store on Maui. The invasive beetle — first detected in Hawaii in December 2013 at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam ...

Hawaiʻi Island was ground zero for invasive species like the little fire ant and coquí frog. Now, officials and community ...

HONOLULU (KITV4) - With the Coconut Rhinoceros Beetle (CRB) becoming a bigger problem on Oahu, a Department of Agriculture advisory committee is recommending rules be updated to stop the spread of the ...

A dead coconut rhinoceros beetle was found among compost bags at a Maui big-box store on Monday by staff from the state Department of Agriculture, the department announced Thursday. Staff from the ...