{"id":385508,"date":"2023-02-16T06:06:03","date_gmt":"2023-02-15T20:06:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=385508"},"modified":"2023-02-16T06:06:03","modified_gmt":"2023-02-15T20:06:03","slug":"invasive-crb-possibly-found-in-kagman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/invasive-crb-possibly-found-in-kagman\/","title":{"rendered":"Invasive CRB possibly found in Kagman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Public Lands and Natural Resources is investigating the possible discovery of the invasive coconut rhinoceros beetle in Kagman.<\/p>\n<p>Acting DLNR secretary Sylvan Igisomar said yesterday that CNMI invasive species coordinator Frank Aldan is still working on it and that he will ask him for more information about the matter. Aldan is currently on Rota.<\/p>\n<p>Igisomar said he cannot deny nor confirm that Aldan\u2019s team was able to collect early this week in Kagman samples of possible larvae from the coconut rhinoceros beetle.<\/p>\n<p>The official said he is not aware if Aldan sent samples of the collected larvae to Guam for further analysis.<\/p>\n<p>The first discovery of CRB in the CNMI was reportedly on Rota in 2017. No discovery of such species was confirmed on Saipan so far.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_385512\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-385512\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Sylvan-Igisomar-mug.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-385512\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Sylvan-Igisomar-mug-1024x531.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"498\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-385512\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sylvan Igisomar<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In September 2020, then-Rota mayor Efraim M. Atalig declared a State of Significant Emergency regarding the CRB infestation due to its potential impact on Rota\u2019s agriculture.<\/p>\n<p>Atalig issued the declaration after DLNR team confirmed a tip regarding possible infestation in the Gagani and Talakhaya areas of Rota.<\/p>\n<p>The team spotted by using a drone decaying coconut trees and scissor cuts on the palm leaves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Public Lands and Natural Resources is investigating the possible discovery of the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":385512,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[900],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-385508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=385508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385508\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/385512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}