05-28-2013, 01:57 AM
Next time I will research more prior to posting. IN spite of the City Council's resolution, and in spite of petition signed by more than 6,000 Big Island residents, the EPA started releasing the insects in 2011. IN July 2012 there is a report written by them that they have now documented the "first sustainable" evidence of "gall" on the strawberry guava and a sustainable population of the brazilian insects have now been documented up in volcano. What a friggin enviromental disaster this is going to be. I just hope the little fire ants in the trees, kill these biocontrol insects. This is truely frightening.