10-01-2022, 07:22 PM
A story from back in the day:
The coqui infestation was in its very early stages here in OLE, but the quarantine for shipping plant material inter-island had gone into effect. I had a shipment of large plants ready to get sent to Oahu in the greenhouse that was in the far back corner of my lot when I heard several coqui chirping in the ohias in the surrounding lots. Wanting to make sure my shipment would get through quarantine, the next night I went with a friend to catch the coqui - one of us to hold a flashlight while the other grabbed the noisemaker. We'd done this several times before in the preceding weeks. Chasing one particularly quick culprit, we got disoriented (but we did catch the buggah!) We couldn't see my house lights, there were no neighbors within shouting distance, and tall ohias and lots of cloud cover so we couldn't use the sky/stars for reference. We ended up waiting about a half hour until we finally heard a truck drive by and could tell where the road was. After this, I always hung a lantern high in my greenhouse that could be seen from a distance when we went out 'hunting'.
So while there seem to be some holes in the story, I can understand being totally lost when off the beaten path in your own neighborhood.
The coqui infestation was in its very early stages here in OLE, but the quarantine for shipping plant material inter-island had gone into effect. I had a shipment of large plants ready to get sent to Oahu in the greenhouse that was in the far back corner of my lot when I heard several coqui chirping in the ohias in the surrounding lots. Wanting to make sure my shipment would get through quarantine, the next night I went with a friend to catch the coqui - one of us to hold a flashlight while the other grabbed the noisemaker. We'd done this several times before in the preceding weeks. Chasing one particularly quick culprit, we got disoriented (but we did catch the buggah!) We couldn't see my house lights, there were no neighbors within shouting distance, and tall ohias and lots of cloud cover so we couldn't use the sky/stars for reference. We ended up waiting about a half hour until we finally heard a truck drive by and could tell where the road was. After this, I always hung a lantern high in my greenhouse that could be seen from a distance when we went out 'hunting'.
So while there seem to be some holes in the story, I can understand being totally lost when off the beaten path in your own neighborhood.