HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) – The Board of Agriculture and Biosecurity officially approved a request to extend the designated coffee berry borer beetle-infested area to Lanai and Kauai on Tuesday. <\/p>\n
The designation goes into effect on Wednesday, following similar conclusions on Hawaii Island in 2010 and Oahu in 2015.<\/p>\n
The coffee berry borer beetle (CBB) is known as the most destructive pest of coffee worldwide, infamous for drilling into coffee berries and laying 35-50 eggs within a seed.<\/p>\n
To prevent the expansion of pests, coffee plants and seeds still require a permit for interisland travel.<\/p>\n
The board says Molokai remains the only island not considered infested with CBB. A disinfestation treatment, a one-year quarantine period, and a permit are still required for any movement of green coffee beans, used coffee bags, or harvesting equipment to Molokai.<\/p>\n
Contact the Department of Agriculture and Biosecurity\u2019s Plant Quarantine Branch Acting Plant Specialist at (808) 832-0566<\/a> or email DAB.PQSPEC@hawaii.gov<\/a> for more information.<\/p>\n Copyright 2026 Hawaii News Now. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) – The Board of Agriculture and Biosecurity officially approved a request to extend the designated coffee…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":724123,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[192,79],"class_list":["post-724122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=724122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/724123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=724122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=724122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=724122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}