Kona coffee farmer Tommy Greenwell checks a trap hanging from a coffee tree on his farm in Captain Cook, Hawaii, on Feb. 23, 2011. A beetle smaller than a sesame seed is boring its way into Kona coffee beans and threatening the nation’s only coffee growing region’s premiere crop. Greenwall said about 25 percent of farms in the Kona region are infected and that farmers have lost roughly 2 percent of the crop this year.
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