Indianapolis CBP Intercepts Khapra Beetle in Bag of Seeds from India
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has announced that Indianapolis CBP agriculture specialists working at the FedEx express consignment facility have recently found Khapra Beetles within a small plastic bag of barley seeds from India. CBP officers identified a parcel containing…
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personal effects coming from India, which was x-rayed and inspected. As a result, two live immature Khapra Beetles were found within a bag of barley seeds; the bag of barley seeds was destroyed and the remaining shipment containing the personal effects was re-exported back to the shipper in India.