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Title

Pest Alert: Carribean Tree Frogs in Hawaii

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Article

Date of this Version

January 2003

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United States Department of Agriculture.

First spotted in Hawaii in 1992, invasive Caribbean tree frogs have been a threat to the State’s Agriculture, tourism, and native ecosystems ever since. In just 10 year, burgeoning populations of two species, the coqui frog (Eleutherodactylus coqui) and the greenhouse frog (E. planirostris), have become established on Maui, Oahu, Kauai, and Hawaii’s main island.