Anyone in volcano see the guava infected yet?

[peteadams]

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I am hoping for the best actually, but expecting the worst, due mostly to the govt being in charge of this experiment...

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Perhaps you would prefer Helco or Exxon to be in charge of this experiment?

Introducing this bug was a decade long effort involving caged bugs being offered many types of possible bug food. The bugs were found to only affect the strawberry guava, likely because the plant and the bug coevolved in South America. "The government" was extremely careful in introducing this bug, motivated by the extreme invasiveness of the strawberry guava and its effects of overwhelming native plants.

You'd do Hawai'i a favor by cutting down and stump killing all of the strawberry guava on your property right now and replanting with native, or at least non-invasive, plant species. We're trying on our property but still have a ways to go.