[APWG] NEWS: Agrucultural Invaders

Olivia Kwong plant at plantconservation.org
Thu Mar 26 09:26:54 CDT 2009


http://www.delawareonline.com/article/20090325/NEWS02/903250358

Agricultural invaders
Inspectors at the Port of Wilmington intercept bugs, seeds, weeds that 
hitch rides with foreign produce
By ADAM TAYLOR -- The News Journal -- March 25, 2009

WILMINGTON -- A gust of wind in Costa Rica blows seeds onto a pineapple. A 
light in a warehouse in Chile draws a moth into a box of grapes. A locust 
in Afghanistan jumps onto a military jeep.

Threats to this country aren't always from the malicious hands of drug 
dealers, terrorists or human traffickers.

See the link above for the full article text.




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