{"id":57357,"date":"2015-11-17T22:09:36","date_gmt":"2015-11-18T03:09:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/breaking911.com\/?p=57357"},"modified":"2015-11-17T22:10:02","modified_gmt":"2015-11-18T03:10:02","slug":"border-agents-intercept-beetle-never-before-seen-in-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/breaking911.com\/border-agents-intercept-beetle-never-before-seen-in-u-s\/","title":{"rendered":"Border Agents Intercept Beetle Never Before Seen in U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LAREDO, Texas \u2013 U.S. Customs and Border Protection agriculture specialists at Laredo Port of Entry discovered two significant rare pests in two weeks, including a <a href=\"https:\/\/breaking911.com\/breaking-border-agents-intercept-insect-never-before-seen-in-us\/\">first in the nation<\/a> beetle on a shipment of cut flowers and a first in the port pest interception in a lettuce shipment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to congratulate our agriculture specialists at Laredo Port of Entry for their diligence and attention to detail that resulted in the interception of a first in the nation pest and a first in the port pest in a two-week period,\u201d said Port Director Gregory Alvarez, Laredo Port of Entry. \u201cTheir outstanding work helps to secure American agriculture from serious economic harm that can be inflicted by infiltration of pest species not known to exist in the U.S.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Oct. 29, agriculture specialists at the Colombia-Solidarity Bridge import lot inspected a shipment of cut flowers. During examination of a sample of Queen Ann\u2019s lace, agriculture specialists intercepted a scarab beetle later identified as Euphoria dimidiata.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/breaking911.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/medium.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-57359\" src=\"https:\/\/breaking911.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/medium.jpg\" alt=\"LAREDO, Texas \u2013 U.S. Customs and Border Protection agriculture specialists at Laredo Port of Entry discovered two significant rare pests in two weeks, including a first in the nation beetle on a shipment of cut flowers and a first in the port pest interception in a lettuce shipment.\" width=\"500\" height=\"328\" srcset=\"https:\/\/breaking911.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/medium.jpg 500w, https:\/\/breaking911.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/medium-300x197.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The interception is the first of its kind in the nation according to USDA\u2019s Pest ID Database. According to USDA entomologists, this pest has never been found at any of the nation\u2019s ports of entry.<\/p>\n<p>The interception marks the second time in as many weeks that CBP agriculture specialists have found a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/breaking911.com\/breaking-border-agents-intercept-insect-never-before-seen-in-us\/\">first in<\/a>\u201d pest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAREDO, Texas \u2013 U.S. Customs and Border Protection agriculture specialists at Laredo Port of Entry discovered two significant rare pests in two weeks, including a first in the nation beetle on a shipment of cut flowers and a first in the port pest interception in a lettuce shipment. \u201cI want to congratulate our agriculture specialists [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5409,"featured_media":57358,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Border Agents Intercept Beetle Never Before Seen in U.S. - Breaking911<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"LAREDO, Texas \u2013 U.S. Customs and Border Protection agriculture specialists at Laredo Port of Entry discovered two significant rare pests in two weeks, including a first in the nation beetle on a shipment of cut flowers and a first in the port pest interception in a lettuce shipment.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/breaking911.com\/border-agents-intercept-beetle-never-before-seen-in-u-s\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Border Agents Intercept Beetle Never Before Seen in U.S. - Breaking911\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"LAREDO, Texas \u2013 U.S. Customs and Border Protection agriculture specialists at Laredo Port of Entry discovered two significant rare pests in two weeks, including a first in the nation beetle on a shipment of cut flowers and a first in the port pest interception in a lettuce shipment.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/breaking911.com\/border-agents-intercept-beetle-never-before-seen-in-u-s\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Breaking911\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Breaking911\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2015-11-18T03:09:36+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2015-11-18T03:10:02+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/breaking911.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/EuphoriaDimidiata1.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"T. 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