Adults: Leaves and saps of the coconut and palm trees. The coconut rhinoceros beetle (CRB) is a common pest insect in the Pacific. Larvae: Dead and decomposed plant matter. Most are black, gray, or greenish in color, and some are covered in soft hairs. Cocos nucifera, Calophyllum inophyllum, Elaeis guineensis, Corypha umbraculifera, Hydriastele palauensis. The funding includes $1,541,421 that will support efforts to control and eradicate invasive species in the insular areas. Rhinoceros beetles are herbivorous insects named for the horn-like projections on and around the males heads. Their front pair of wings are hardened into wing-cases, elytra. Coconut rhinoceros beetle (CRB) is a devastating pest of the economically important coconut (Cocos nucifera L.).The female adult oviposits in and larvae feed on dead and decaying organic materials Citation 1 Citation 6.The larval stage is 1115 weeks in length, and the pupal stage is about 6 weeks in length Citation 2. territories and the freely associated states. Beetles are insects that form the order Coleoptera in the superorder Endopterygota. The beetle, first documented as an invasive species in Guam in 2007, has been devastating the island's ubiquitous coconut trees and is now also burrowing into Guam's endangered native cycad. The coconut rhinoceros beetle (CRB), Oryctes rhinoceros (L.) (Coleoptera Scarabaeidae), is a major pest of coconut palm, Cocos nucifera L.
Department of the Interior’s Office of Insular Affairs (OIA) has announced $2,772,443 in Coral Reef and Natural Resources Initiative (CRNR) grant funds to protect coral reef resources in the U.S.
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