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"Dangerous" beetle found at Los Angeles airport
Reuters ^ | Jan 5, 2011 | Dan Whitcomb

Posted on 01/05/2011 12:56:02 PM PST by 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.

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; US: California; US: Michigan
KEYWORDS: bedbugs; beetle; china; ddt; indianrice; khapra; khaprabeetle; rice; saudiarabia
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To: george76
Time 2 repeal the ban on..... DDT.... it worked
21 posted on 01/05/2011 1:07:42 PM PST by CGASMIA68
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To: OwenKellogg

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


22 posted on 01/05/2011 1:09:25 PM PST by 1rudeboy
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To: george76

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


23 posted on 01/05/2011 1:09:59 PM PST by Yaelle (Excuse all the iPad typos)
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To: george76

Why are we buying rice???


24 posted on 01/05/2011 1:11:39 PM PST by Cheetahcat ( November 4 2008 ,A date which will live in Infamy.)
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To: Cheetahcat

That’s what I was wondering also.


25 posted on 01/05/2011 1:15:27 PM PST by Roos_Girl (The world is full of educated derelicts. - Calvin Coolidge)
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To: george76

26 posted on 01/05/2011 1:16:27 PM PST by colorado tanker
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To: george76
shipment of Indian rice from Saudi Arabia WTF?

We are importing rice from Saudi Arabia???

27 posted on 01/05/2011 1:17:29 PM PST by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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To: george76

Paul McCartney again.


28 posted on 01/05/2011 1:18:13 PM PST by dforest
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To: Roos_Girl

“That’s what I was wondering also.”

I would not eat that rice!


29 posted on 01/05/2011 1:18:47 PM PST by Cheetahcat ( November 4 2008 ,A date which will live in Infamy.)
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To: george76
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.
30 posted on 01/05/2011 1:19:20 PM PST by AEMILIUS PAULUS (It is a shame that when these people give a riot)
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To: george76
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.
31 posted on 01/05/2011 1:20:57 PM PST by AEMILIUS PAULUS (It is a shame that when these people give a riot)
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To: 2banana

We are importing rice from Saudi Arabia???
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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.


32 posted on 01/05/2011 1:23:08 PM PST by xrmusn ((6/98))
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To: george76

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


33 posted on 01/05/2011 1:31:48 PM PST by Revel
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To: AEMILIUS PAULUS

“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!


34 posted on 01/05/2011 1:35:40 PM PST by Beowulf9
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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.

35 posted on 01/05/2011 1:38:04 PM PST by Grizzled Bear ("Does not play well with others.")
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To: 1rudeboy

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.


36 posted on 01/05/2011 1:38:35 PM PST by bigfootbob
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To: george76

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


37 posted on 01/05/2011 1:40:15 PM PST by Redcloak (What's your zombie plan?)
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To: Tijeras_Slim
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.

38 posted on 01/05/2011 1:47:36 PM PST by Graybeard58 (Don't tell Obama what comes after a trillion)
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To: Bartholomew Roberts

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


39 posted on 01/05/2011 1:52:34 PM PST by Kieri (The Conservatrarian)
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To: Grizzled Bear
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".

40 posted on 01/05/2011 1:53:44 PM PST by Graybeard58 (Don't tell Obama what comes after a trillion)
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