Ohia trees are dying rapidly, Why?

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Ran across this article, not sure if it could be relavent to this thread or not.

http://damontucker.com/2009/08/26/bug-pl...ig-island/

Also has me thinking about all those previous attempts to kill off the coqui frogs. Is it possible some of the different spraying agents used, could have contributed to the outbreak? We had our acre here in leilani sprayed with a white lime or caffeine looking powder, to kill off the coqui frogs before we ever saw the Ohias dying. Leilani association did this spraying for free, unfortunately it did not work as the coqui were still chirping only minutes after applying the agent.