Cargo Vessel Expelled From US Waters After Discovery Of Chinese Invasive Insects

Zububrothers.com ^ | 7-31-21 | Zubu Brothers

[dynachrome]

Not every day does a large cargo vessel get booted from U.S. waters after the discovery of invasive insects from China.

According to marine news website gCaptain, a Panama-flagged bulk carrier called M/V Pan Jasmine was anchored downriver from New Orleans on July 17 when the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) discovered five different pests, including two species (namely Cerambycidae, a type of beetle, and Myrmicinae, colonizing queen ants) that are known to pose a significant agriculture threats to U.S. farmland.

The significant presence of pests onboard the vessel forced CBP to expel it from U.S. waters.

New Orleans Area Port Director Terri Edwards said if the vessel offloaded with dunnage filled with pests, “it would have been put in a Louisiana landfill where the insects could crawl out and invade the local habitat, causing incalculable damage.”

[dynachrome]

I wonder if any ships got thru already?

[rlmorel]

One might think all of this is intentional.

One might think.

[Michael.SF.]

invasive insects

euphemism for their soldiers?

[algore]

In case anyone was unfamiliar with the word dunnage:

“To stow with fagots or loose wood, as the bottom of a ship’s hold; wedge or chock, as cargo. See dunnage, n.”

[alternatives?]

I am sure it was “accidental”.

[nascarnation]

We got the ash borers from Asia here in the midwest about a decade ago.
Killed all the ash trees, but provided a lot of good firewood.

[M Kehoe]

More bio war courtesy of Xi and the CCP.

5.56mm

[Revel]

Isn’t Globalism Grand?

[al baby]

Gates already has the cure for it

[Karliner]

Gee....first a virus, then insects? The Art of War?

[gov_bean_ counter]

Gonna vaccinate every one of those little buggers…

[gov_bean_ counter]

Yep.

[Mouton]

Were they Covid 20 or something like that.

[JonPreston]

Germ warfare is a Cold War legacy

[BenLurkin]

“To stow with fagots or loose wood...”

http://www.lerctr.org/~transit/healy/saywhat.wav

“....as the bottom of a ship’s hold”

http://www.lerctr.org/~transit/healy/going.wav

[LIConFem]

Sink the fekkin’ ships and turn Beijing into a cinder.

[V_TWIN]

First thing I thought....what DID get through

[UnwashedPeasant]

Another reason to ban trade with Nazi China.

[SES1066]

How does that old saying go? “With friends like these ... “

[drSteve78]

Can catch ants and beetles, but can’t catch ANY illegal immigrants