It’s been just over one year since Lavaloha farmer Daeus Bencomo found telltale signs of Queensland longhorn beetles on his 30 acres of cacao: penny-sized boreholes, the larvae’s sawdust-like waste and mucus seeping from scarred trees. Unlike the coconut rhinoceros beetle, which has now spread throughout the state but mostly just targets coconut trees, this … Continue reading Another Destructive Beetle Is Spreading, Killing Hawaiʻi’s Trees