Coconut Beetle
Solutions & Prevention
Protect your landscape with Coconut Beetle Solutions
If you’re seeing signs of Coconut Rhinoceros Beetle (CRB) damage in your palm trees—or you’re worried about protecting them before beetles arrive—now is the time to act. Timing is everything! Just 60 female Coconut Rhinoceros Beetles can produce up to 1.4 million larvae within 36 months. Protect your palms from Coconut Rhinoceros Beetles with a fast-acting, long-lasting solution.
This is truly an "All Hands on Deck" island emergency.
Coconut Beetle Solutions uses a specialized insecticidal injection that turns each treated palm into a powerful line of defense against Coconut Rhinoceros Beetles. By placing the treatment directly into the tree’s vascular system, we deliver a safe, targeted solution that moves throughout the tree, reaching the beetles where they live and feed—inside the trunk and crown. This means longer-lasting protection, improved tree health, and reduced risk of hazards from weakened or dying palms.
Contact us today to schedule a vascular injection treatment and safeguard your palms before the damage becomes irreversible.
Our Services
Protect your palm trees from Coconut Rhinoceros Beetles with a free, no‑obligation consultation. Our professional team is made up of the leading CRB specialists on island, combining years of hands‑on field experience with the latest treatment methods to accurately assess your trees and recommend the safest, most effective plan. Schedule your complimentary inspection today and let the island’s top experts help you to identify ways to protect and preserve your palms at no charge.
Protect your palms from Coconut Rhinoceros Beetles before they are ever under attack. Our professional CRB team will inspect your property, assess risk, and outline a clear, customized preventative treatment plan tailored to your trees. Our preventative treatments are designed and scientifically proven to shield your palms from beetle damage and support long‑term tree health.
Protect valuable palms already under attack from CRB with targeted, science‑based treatments. Our team inspects each tree, applies trunk injections to kill feeding beetles. We focus on saving high‑value trees, improving palm health, and preventing repeat damage with an integrated management plan tailored to your property.
Our History
Coconut Beetle Solutions is dedicated to combating the Coconut Rhinoceros Beetle crisis island wide in Hawaiʻi. With over 3 decades of arborist, landscape, and pest control experience as well as a dedication to professional service we are here to help save our islands from a potentially devastating infestation.
Having a deep understanding of the Coconut Rhinoceros Beetle, coupled with a passion for sustainable agriculture and a desire to empower local farmers, fuels our motivation to establish a business focused on providing effective solutions to the growing CRB problem on our islands.
Our Mission
Coconut Beetle Solutions was founded to protect the iconic palm trees island wide, support agriculture, and natural ecosystems by providing effective and sustainable CRB eradication and prevention services which are backed by scientific research and recommended best practices by both the State of Hawai'i and the University of Hawai'i.
We believe through innovative approaches and culturally sensitive community engagement, we can significantly mitigate the potential damage caused by this destructive pest and safeguard coconut production for the future generations of families here on Kaua'i.
ʻĀina Acknowledgement
We acknowledge Hawaiʻi as an indigenous space whose original people are Kānaka ʻŌiwi (Native Hawaiians), and recognize that our work takes place on ancestral lands cared for by Native Hawaiian communities for generations. As we manage invasive species like the coconut rhinoceros beetle, we commit to mālama ʻāina—honoring Native Hawaiian knowledge, relationships, and leadership in caring for this ʻāina and its ecosystems. In our field work, we strive to use the least harmful and most targeted tools available, prioritizing prevention, monitoring, and eradication. In some situations, however, stopping severe ecological damage leaves us with no choice but to use carefully regulated control agents; when we do, we follow best‑available science, strict safety protocols, full disclosures, and ongoing community consultation to protect people, culture, and ʻāina to the greatest extent possible.
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Early and accurate detection of coconut rhinoceros beetle (CRB) damage is the best way to save palms and reduce spread. Our inspection service includes a full crown and trunk assessment, careful search for bore holes and V‑shaped feeding cuts, and evaluation of nearby breeding material and green‑waste sites. Each palm is scored using the standard CRB Damage Rating Scale (0–5), documenting current damage and risk so you can prioritize which trees need immediate treatment, monitoring, or removal.
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For effective larval and adult beetle control, targeted treatments are essential at every stage of the CRB life cycle. Our program emphasizes trunk and vascular injections as the cornerstone of protection, delivering systemic and scientifically proven insecticides directly into the palm where feeding adults are exposed and killed. These injections provide long‑lasting, internal control that contact sprays, soil drenches, and granular treatments alone cannot match.
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We focus on both preventative and curative care, with trunk injections as the primary method for protecting and rescuing infested palms. Preventative care emphasizes injections and ongoing monitoring to shield healthy trees BEFORE CRB damage occurs. Curative care targets palms already showing CRB damage with focused trunk treatments to reduce beetle activity and support recovery through systemic trunk injections, proper nutrition, and good tree‑health practices to maintain palm vitality and reduce ongoing stress and attack risk.
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Green waste management remains important because the entire island effectively functions as a giant compost pile where CRB can breed, but our operational focus is on protecting trees, not treating the compost itself. We recognize that we cannot steam‑treat or fully sanitize every organic pile across the landscape, nor will there ever be enough manpower or time to do so. Instead, we prioritize direct treatment of high‑value palms with trunk injections and targeted controls, while managing green waste as a secondary, supporting measure to reduce nearby breeding pressure.
