{"id":813043,"date":"2026-08-14T05:16:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T05:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/813043\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T05:16:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T05:16:09","slug":"live-opossum-captured-near-hilo-harbor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/813043\/","title":{"rendered":"Live opossum captured near Hilo Harbor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">HILO (HawaiiNewsNow) &#8211; A live opossum was captured at a freight transporting warehouse near Hilo Harbor Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Around 10:15 a.m., warehouse employees reportedly spotted the opossum in their container staging area and contacted the U.S. Department of Agriculture, who then notified the Hawaii Plant Quarantine Branch in Hilo. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Warehouse workers had already contained the animal by the time state staff arrived at the site. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">State agriculture officials inspected the surrounding area and found no other opossums.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Per legal protocol, the opossum was humanely euthanized and a tissue sample was sent to the mainland for rabies testing. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Opossums are prohibited in Hawaii, and although the state says they are less likely to carry rabies than other mammals, they can carry parasites and other diseases.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">To report a sighting of an illegal animal in Hawaii, call the statewide PEST hotline at (808) 643-PEST (7378).<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 Hawaii News Now. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HILO (HawaiiNewsNow) &#8211; A live opossum was captured at a freight transporting warehouse near Hilo Harbor Wednesday morning.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":813044,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[79,201],"class_list":["post-813043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813043","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=813043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813043\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/813044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=813043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=813043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=813043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}