Aloha Organic · Niu field guide

Care for the palms.
Care for the future.

A field guide to coconut rhinoceros beetle, grounded in observation and the care we share for niu.

Niu · knowledge · community

Know what you see.
Care for what grows.

Coconut is food, relationship, and a living connection across generations. Caring for niu brings close observation together with community knowledge and careful research.

This is your Aloha Organic guide to coconut rhinoceros beetle: what to look for, how to keep useful records, and how to read the science.

Start with identification

Coconut palms with sparse crowns beside water — From Aloha Organic’s existing coconut-care collection. A landscape view helps document the whole crown; a photograph alone does not establish the cause of decline.

01 / OBSERVE

Meet the beetle.

A visual introduction to adults, larvae, and the places they live.

02 / COMPARE

Read the signs.

Look at crown damage, emerging leaves, and the wider setting.

03 / RESPOND

Make a care plan.

Record what you find and consider breeding material alongside palm care.

Wisdom, with a source

Good questions.
Grounded research.

Explore our research collection by topic, with plain-language findings, the study setting, and what each can—and cannot—tell us about Hawaiʻi.

Read the research

CRB larvae collected from a rotting palm trunk in Samoa, with an adult beetle inset — Field observation in Samoa, not Hawaiʻi. Adult CRB appears in the inset. Paudel et al. (2022), Figure 1 · Source · CC BY 4.0 · Unmodified.

Pacific Community · Second edition

The management manual.

A shared reference for identification, surveillance, sanitation, biological control and integrated pest management—with a guide to the original pages.

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