Thursday, 3 September 2015

Norfolk CPB Intercepts Destructive Pest Never Seen Before in U.S.

Norfolk CPB Intercepts Destructive Pest Never Seen Before in U.S.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection agriculture specialists at the Port of Norfolk discovered a wood boring pest confirmed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture as a First in the Nation, a new pest never seen before in the United States. This confirmed, first time, national interception of a variety of pest, Pityophthorus glabratus Eichhoff, a bark beetle which was first described in 1878 in Europe.
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