A resident from Honolulu Street spotted a 4.8 pound coconut crab in their area. Holly Cantere of the Moanalua region found the huge coconut crab crawling along Salt Lake Boulevard last Sunday afternoon, according to reports.

Despite the giant size of the crab, Cantere trapped the crab inside a box. She informed the Agriculture Department without delay about the trapped crab. According to the department, a coconut crab has been spotted for the first time in Hawaii since 1989.

Crabs are classified as world's largest arthropod in addition to spiders and insects and terrestrial hermit crabs could be easily found in the Indian territories and Western Pacific Ocean.

Professor Rob Toonen of Hawaii University said that a coconut crab can grow up to 3 feet long. He also said that the species could be potentially dangerous when hungry. And if large number of giant coconut crabs is residing in a single area, it can affect the natural resources negatively.

"They are very dangerous as they can eat local birds, empty people's trash cans, make landscape unfit, they can rip apart things. The most terrible of them all, they can be find crawling around your backyard", said Toonen.

Experts are still looking for the possible reason why it moved to Oahu and said that such crab survives up to 60 years and is really dangerous as it can climb trees. According to some people, meat of coconut crab is appetizing.

Trenton Yasui, an invertebrate specialist for Hawaii's Department of Agriculture explained that it's actually a delicacy in the Pacific and Indian Ocean islands and its meat tastes a little different.