{"id":58839,"date":"2015-11-30T19:16:20","date_gmt":"2015-12-01T00:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/breaking911.com\/?p=58839"},"modified":"2015-11-30T19:16:53","modified_gmt":"2015-12-01T00:16:53","slug":"border-agents-in-baltimore-intercept-beetle-never-before-seen-in-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/breaking911.com\/border-agents-in-baltimore-intercept-beetle-never-before-seen-in-u-s\/","title":{"rendered":"Border Agents in Baltimore Intercept Beetle Never Before Seen in U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BALTIMORE &#8211; A U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) entomologist confirmed Wednesday that U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Office of Field Operations (OFO) agriculture specialists at the Port of Baltimore made a first in nation pest discovery when they intercepted a live insect known as Chaetocnema breviuscula Felderman (Chrysomelidae), a beet flea beetle, while inspecting ceramic tile from Italy.<\/p>\n<p>This jumping beetle chews little holes in the leaves of agriculture crops. Young plants suffer badly and normally die.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKeeping this pest out of the nation saves the American agricultural industry from the expense of eradication, and the hardship of finding their crops damaged by a new danger,\u201d said Dianna Bowman CBP Area Port Director for the Port of Baltimore. \u201cBy stopping destructive species at the border, before they can enter the United States for the first time, CBP officers and agriculture specialists protect this vital American industry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The beetle was discovered November 12 at the Baltimore Seaport in the interior of a container containing ceramic tile from Italy. The specimen was forwarded to a USDA- Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) \u2013 Plant Protection Quarantine (PPQ) entomologist for identification.<\/p>\n<p>On November 25, USDA confirmed that this was the first identification of this species in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>CBP Agriculture specialists have extensive training and experience in the biological sciences and agriculture inspection. On a typical day nationally, they inspect over 1 million people as well as air and sea cargo imported to the United States and intercept 4,447 prohibited meat, plant materials or animal products, including 425 agriculture pests and diseases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BALTIMORE &#8211; A U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) entomologist confirmed Wednesday that U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Office of Field Operations (OFO) agriculture specialists at the Port of Baltimore made a first in nation pest discovery when they intercepted a live insect known as Chaetocnema breviuscula Felderman (Chrysomelidae), a beet flea beetle, while inspecting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5409,"featured_media":58840,"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":[37],"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 in Baltimore Intercept Beetle Never Before Seen in U.S. - Breaking911<\/title>\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-in-baltimore-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 in Baltimore Intercept Beetle Never Before Seen in U.S. - Breaking911\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"BALTIMORE &#8211; A U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) entomologist confirmed Wednesday that U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Office of Field Operations (OFO) agriculture specialists at the Port of Baltimore made a first in nation pest discovery when they intercepted a live insect known as Chaetocnema breviuscula Felderman (Chrysomelidae), a beet flea beetle, while inspecting [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/breaking911.com\/border-agents-in-baltimore-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=\"2015-12-01T00:16:20+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2015-12-01T00:16:53+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/breaking911.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/FIN-Flea-Beetle1.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"436\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"504\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"T. 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