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RE: Queensland Longhorn Beetle - Carey - 02-29-2020
We went to the QLB info session in Hilo this month & none too soon!
During the windstorm this week, I heard the snapping of a lot of branches in our neighbors yard, I went over (thinking more of a big animal in the trees) & noticed that our neighbors` citrus trees have the tell-tale frass & holes of QLB.
Keaau Town area.
The trees are almost (if not completely) girdled with boring damage & to make matters worse, bark beetles are taking up house & doing more damage in the frass areas.
These buggas can fly, so it is best that all of us are looking for any of the indicators that they are in any of the trees you would like to save.
Hawaii Dept of Ag info on this:
https://hdoa.hawaii.gov/pi/files/2018/08/Acalolepta-aesthetica-NPA.pdf
RE: Queensland Longhorn Beetle - bananahead - 03-02-2020
they usually kill cacao and kukui... i have them on some kukui on my prop... kill them on sight!
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save our indigenous and endemic Hawaiian Plants... learn about them, grow them, and plant them on your property, ....instead of all that invasive non-native garbage I see in most yards... aloha
RE: Queensland Longhorn Beetle - bananahead - 03-02-2020
fyi... newbie malihini ALWAYS encourage invasives!
if 'they' would all learn about how we are the invasive species capital of the world... AND AND the endangered species capitol of the world... same f~place!
there is only one correct pono thing to do... yet 'they' never catch a clue... and thus EXPLOIT the F out of this unique important place... before leaving 15 yrs later for Ohio or eastTX again...
facts...
aloha
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save our indigenous and endemic Hawaiian Plants... learn about them, grow them, and plant them on your property, ....instead of all that invasive non-native garbage I see in most yards... aloha
RE: Queensland Longhorn Beetle - Carey - 03-02-2020
Bananahead, not sure what this is in regards to "fyi... newbie malihini ALWAYS encourage invasives!" however, our neighbor with the infected, almost-dead orchard of trees has been in the house longer than the trees, which were planted in the late 1940s, so not at all a "newbie malihini"!
The most important thing to remember is that once this beetle is in an area, and they are in Puna, they can fly, so now this is another invasive that we all must be diligent at looking for the tell-tale signs they are in our trees & not worry about pointing fingers! Or watch it munch away many of the trees you have.
RE: Queensland Longhorn Beetle - Obie - 04-27-2022
Don't know if I should have revived this thread but I don't have any large trees except for Ohia.
Tonight one of these things flew into me and it is huge. I subdued it and I have it in a zip lock in the freezer.
I thought it was a flying cockroach and smashed it under a can of beer, then is saw the antennae. They were 3 inches long !
RE: Queensland Longhorn Beetle - terracore - 04-28-2022
We found one on our property, captured it and contacted AG. Several days later they responded and asked if they could come collect it, but it had chewed out of it's plastic prison. I found it between the glass panes of an open horizontal window and the main part of the window, and sprayed it with roach killer instead of risking another escape (it was close to chewing out of the window screen). AG didn't want a dead specimen so they never came for it.
If you catch one and don't kill it, put it in a glass jar or something they can't chew through, if you don't freeze it (I assume freezing kills it but I don't really know).
RE: Queensland Longhorn Beetle - Obie - 04-28-2022
Freezing did a pretty good job on it.
RE: Queensland Longhorn Beetle - HawaiiEV - 04-28-2022
That’s terrifying
RE: Queensland Longhorn Beetle - microage97 - 04-28-2022
I've had a couple fly into the house, attracted to the lights and boy, they are pretty loud when flying.
RE: Queensland Longhorn Beetle - terracore - 04-30-2022
(04-28-2022, 06:23 AM)Obie Wrote: Freezing did a pretty good job on it.
I wish I had taken a picture against the inch scale like you did. But the one we caught was much larger. Good job on your record keeping.