CBP Intercepts Various Agricultural Pests
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has announced that CBP agriculture specialists stationed in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands found various actionable pests within commercial consignments of cut flowers, sweet potatoes, chayote, coconuts, celery and Persian limes imported from…
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Colombia, Costa Rica and the Dominican Republic. The identified insects, mentioned by their scientific and common names, are: Frankliniella sp. (thirps), Agromyzidae sp. (leaf-miner flies), Aphididae sp.(aphids), and Pseudococcidae (mealybugs).