Posted on 07/31/2021 12:56:11 PM PDT by 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.”
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You forgot Fang Fang!
I suspect “Fang Fang Gang Bang” falls under the grouping of bioweapons.
This is serious as one engineered corn kernel(properly placed) could devastate our food supply Thats just corn
Among many other things...
https://www.invasivespeciesinfo.gov/terrestrial/invertebrates/spotted-lanternfly
Surprised they just didn’t douse it with gasoline and burn it.
“IMPACT:
Poses a serious economic threat to multiple U.S. industries, including viticulture, fruit trees, ornamentals and timber”
Well at least its nothing serious. /s/
Sheesh
How about we send them some of our invasive species, namely liberals karens and kens antifa and blm?
“douse it with gasoline and burn it”
Sounds like a good job for that sailor that set the amphibious assault ship on fire.
Some have been found in Maryland but PA has a lot of them.
They have put out alerts and suggested putting sticky traps on the trees, which, unfortunately, also catch and kill native beneficial species.
Nothing good comes from that hell hole.
An attempt to attack American agriculture and bring a famine upon America?
We have the Lantern Fly now here in the northeast thanks to contaminated imported stone from China. These things are everywhere now, literally hundreds of them in our yard. My understanding is that they are very destructive and no critters around here like to eat them.
Ahh Fang Fang and of course Feinstein’s drive....Googles social credit score...yeah, war in progress. Aren’t they buying up farmland also?
No "might" about it to my way of thinking.
Agreed. And they are still in the list of our “Most Favored Nation” trading partners.
Astonishing. We better wake up soon, and not the “woke” wake up.
“Surprised they just didn’t douse it with gasoline and burn it.”
Isn’t that illegal under current US gestapo EPA laws. aka greenies win again, society loses.
We must survive the bugs to save the environment.
Yes...one “might” think that it is an accident.
With all the sarcasm inflection on “might”.
So, then:
Customs and Border Patrol CAN do their jobs properly.
There are just 2 different standards between the land & water borders.
Stating the obvious in one respect, but this is the first time that I’ve seen such a dichotomy demonstrated so blatantly.
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