Koa Coffee Plantation of over . In 2007, Artukovich sold most of the assets of the company to Kona's Best Natural Coffee. KBNC does business as Koa Coffee Plantation. Since 2009 Koa Coffee Plantation has been owned by Hawaii Coffee Company in Honolulu. The Koa Coffee Plantation gained accolades in the late 1990s early 2000's when it had been producing and selling only hand picked 100% estate Kona coffee, including organic Kona coffee and a heritage blend (Grande Domaine Kona) harvested from trees dating back to 1918. The plantation used a wet mill facility from Colombia, a dry mill from Brazil and maintained
Scotorythra paludicola State Park. Laboratory feeding trials of these larvae showed that they could complete their development at the same rate on both the normal host ("Acacia koa") and the invasive tree ("Falcataria moluccana"). Three other exotic tree species, "Acacia confusa", "Prosopis pallida", and "Leucaena leucocephala" were not suitable host plants and all the larvae tested on these species died after 5 days of feeding. Scotorythra paludicola Scotorythra paludicola, the koa looper moth, is a moth of the family Geometridae. It was first described by Arthur Gardiner Butler in 1879. It is endemic to the Hawaiian islands of Kauai, Oahu, Maui and