"Dangerous" beetle found at Los Angeles airport

Reuters ^ | Jan 5, 2011 | Dan Whitcomb

[george76]

U.S. customs officials said on Wednesday they had found a beetle considered one of the world's most dangerous agricultural pests in a shipment of rice arriving at Los Angeles International Airport. Agricultural specialists with U.S. Customs and Border Protection found an adult khapra beetle, eight larvae and a shed skin in a shipment of Indian rice from Saudi Arabia ...

Earlier this year, border protection officials in Detroit found a khapra beetle in a shipment of tile from China.

[CGASMIA68]

Time 2 repeal the ban on..... DDT.... it worked

[1rudeboy]

I’ve met a guy who charters jets for that purpose.

[Yaelle]

Supposedly the bedbugs come from the middle east as well. Just another gift from the Muslim lands...

[Cheetahcat]

Why are we buying rice???

[Roos_Girl]

That’s what I was wondering also.

[colorado tanker]

[2banana]

shipment of Indian rice from Saudi Arabia WTF?

We are importing rice from Saudi Arabia???

[dforest]

Paul McCartney again.

[Cheetahcat]

“That’s what I was wondering also.”

I would not eat that rice!

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

There is a movie here. I can see the scene where Janet Napolitano opens a door at LAX and all one sees is a writhing mass of beetles on the floor accompanied by eating sounds and screams. With today's computerized special effects one could see her face dissolve. We need a good comedy this year.

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

There is a movie here. I can see the scene where Janet Napolitano opens a door at LAX and all one sees is a writhing mass of beetles on the floor accompanied by eating sounds and screams. With today's computerized special effects one could see her face dissolve. We need a good comedy this year.

[xrmusn]

We are importing rice from Saudi Arabia???
= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =
Well, they import sand from us don’t they?

Is ‘Indian rice’ PC? or shouldn’t it be Native-American rice?

I can’t keep the PC rules straight anymore.

[Revel]

Brought to you by the New Global order. Insanity at its best. Last I knew...We could grow our own rice.

[Beowulf9]

“Napolitano opens a door at LAX and all one sees is a writhing mass of beetles on the floor accompanied by eating sounds and screams.”

I love this movie idea!

[Grizzled Bear]

Is ‘Indian rice’ PC? or shouldn’t it be Native-American rice?

I think it's rice from India. India Indians were called Indians before American Indians were called Indians.

[bigfootbob]

Probably not that much, really. They fly Chilean grapes into the west coast, just had some yesterday. They cost right under two bucks more for a 5 pound container from Costco as did the grapes we had been getting from Delano, California up until three weeks ago. I commented to the wife yesterday, it seems like it should cost more to air freight grapes, now rice...amazing.

[Redcloak]

1 beetle they catch. 20,000,000 Mexican nationals, on the other hand...

[Graybeard58]

Kudzu too, but we brought that over all by ourselves.

Not so long ago, it was a southern problem. I have it on the west side of my house here in central Illinois. Relentlessly creeping northward.

[Kieri]

Are there box elder trees in China? I’d like to ship ‘em a few TRILLION of those *(@&# box elder bugs.

[Graybeard58]

I think it's rice from India. India Indians were called Indians before American Indians were called Indians.

Further classified and identified as "dot heads" and "feathers".