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Posted: Saturday, July 1st, 2006 6:47 AM HST
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Feds chip in to help control coqui
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HONOLULU (AP) _ The U-S Department of Agriculture has approved spending 240-thousand dollars to help control coqui frogs on the Big Island.
U-S Senator Daniel Inouye says in a new release issued by his Washington office that the money will be used to target small plant nurseries that have relatively few frogs.
Inouye says the department's Wildlife Services staff will be move from nursery to nursery to kill the frogs with citric acid.
Coqui frogs have no natural predators in the islands to keep their numbers in check.
Experts believe the first coqui frog -- or frogs -- hitched a ride to Hawaii in a plant shipped from Puerto Rico or Florida.
Officials worry the noisy frogs could threaten Hawaii's many endangered bird species by eating the bugs the birds rely on for food.
(Copyright 2006 Associated Press. All rights reserved)
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