Puerto Rico’s beloved mascot is a miniature tree frog named for its distinctive call: ko-KEE. All night long, choirs of love-starved males serenade would-be mates, who respond with quiet guttural ...

It's hard to imagine a tiny, 2-inch frog could cause so much harm. Beloved in its native Puerto Rico, the coqui frog has become a menace in Hawaii, where it suddenly appeared in the 1990s. With no ...

HONOLULU – The coqui is a tiny, coin-size frog whose distinctive nightly mating calls are a beloved sound in Puerto Rico and other Caribbean islands. But people in Hawaii don’t share the same ...

HONOLULU – A tiny frog with a huge shriek has invaded the Big Island and won't shut up. Big Island Mayor Harry Kim (search) is looking for $2 million to begin controlling the spread of the nocturnal ...

has invaded the Big Island and won't shut up. Big Island Mayor Harry Kim is looking for $2 million to begin controlling the spread of the nocturnal coqui frog, a beloved native in Puerto Rico but ...

WAHIAWA, Hawaii — You could call it “The Invasion of the Alien Frogs.” But this is no science fiction movie. Tiny Caribbean frogs with a chirp as intense as a lawn mower’s roar have infiltrated the ...

HONOLULU (KHON2) — The Hawaii Department of Agriculture (HDOA) is coordinating a multi-agency eradication effort after officials detected a coqui frog infestation in a remote area of Waimanalo. A ...

Wildlife officials in Hawaii are using aerial drones to wage chemical warfare on coqui frogs by dumping citric acid on these invasive creatures, thereby killing them — along with any tadpoles and eggs ...

Puerto Rican coqui frogs were accidentally introduced to Hawaii in the 1980s, and today there are as many as 91,000 frogs per hectare in some locations. What does that mean for native wildlife?