Re: Coqui frogs on Big Island
Lime OK’d for use against coqui frogs
Rod Thompson, Honolulu Star-Bulletin, Thursday, April 28, 2005
There's also a sidebar about how a guy at UH found a way to trap the frogs with old PVC pipes.
Lime OK’d for use against coqui frogs
Rod Thompson, Honolulu Star-Bulletin, Thursday, April 28, 2005
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has approved the use of hydrated lime to kill coqui frogs in Hawaii for the next three years... Lime costs about one-tenth as much as the next-best coqui killer approved to date, citric acid."That's good news," said Billy Kenoi, Big Island Mayor Harry Kim's anti-coqui assistant... A few people actually enjoy the high-pitched call of male coquis, but with coquis reaching 12,000 per acre in some places, others are worried about a biological disaster... Hawaii County is continuing to seek up to $2 million this legislative session to control the frogs, [Kenoi] said.
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