There are patches of Vanuatu when you drive around, you will see a lot of coconut trees witch their heads gone. Like each one of them has been struck by lightning. Turns out they all got affected by a foreign pest – CRB Coconut Rhinoceros Beetle – when one of them accidentally got transported from Papua New Guinea in an excavator!!

The distinct red color of the barks is genetic to the local variety though. The raw coconuts themselves apparently can be bright orange to deep red.