State officials are on high alert after an arborist found 17 live coconut rhinoceros beetle larvae Tuesday morning while cutting down coconut palms in Kihei. The arborist — who was hired to remove 12 ...

HONOLULU (Island News) -- Larvae, or grubs, of the invasive Coconut Rhinoceros Beetle have been found on Hawaii Island -- the first discovery of the beetle on the island. This comes after multiple CRB ...

Hawaiʻi Department of Agriculture and Biosecurity officials are going door to door in Kona Palisades on Hawaiʻi Island to ask ...

Adult coconut rhinoceros beetles, a highly destructive invasive pest that has devastated Oahu palm trees, have been detected on the Big Island for the first time. While beetle larvae were discovered ...

This image shows the coconut rhinoceros beetle larvae detected in plants shipped from Oahu to Lanai. Photo courtesy Department of Agriculture and Biosecurity Since May, officials report there have ...

Coconut rhinoceros beetles pose a serious threat to Hawaii’s palm trees. These invasive beetles bore into the crowns of palms ...

Live coconut rhinoceros beetle larvae were found Tuesday by an arborist cutting down coconut palm trees in Kihei. — Photo courtesy Hawaii Department of Agriculture Seventeen live coconut rhinoceros ...

HONOLULU (KHON2) — The Hawaii Department of Agriculture got a call from a Waimanalo landowner searching for answers after mulch was dumped on his property. He said it was infested with Coconut ...

HONOLULU (KHNL/Gray News) - A Hawaiian man said he found 50 coconut rhinoceros beetle larvae inside a bag of Miracle-Gro garden soil. Coconut rhinoceros beetles are invasive to Hawaii and several ...

WAIMANALO (HawaiiNewsNow) - Some 3,000 traps have gone up around Oahu in an effort to track the spread of the invasive coconut rhinoceros beetle, an insect capable of destroying thousands of coconut ...

State officials today confirmed that invasive coconut rhinoceros beetle grubs, or larvae, have been found in Waikoloa Village on Hawaii island. It is the first discovery of the beetle, a major threat ...