Palm Sunday

With Oksana Butovskaya:

a Coconut Rhinoceros Beetle

Hawaii Public Radio, The race begins to protect Honolulu palm trees from coconut rhinoceros beetles

If you’re at a city park in the Kakaʻako or Ala Moana areas on Oʻahu, you may see crews working on palm trees as part of a new effort to keep away the invasive coconut rhinoceros beetle.

The crews will be injecting about 800 trees with an insecticide so that they can serve as a barrier to protect the dense groves of palm trees in urban Honolulu.

“We estimate that about a half of our palm tree inventory, of nearly 8,000 palms across the island, is concentrated from Moanalua to the Ka Iwi Coast,” said Roxanne Adams, administrator of the Honolulu Division of Urban Forestry, in a statement. “So the goal is to create a barrier making it more difficult for the beetle to infiltrate into these dense groves.
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The trees will be injected with the Xytect insecticide, which is supposed to prevent CRB from infecting them.

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