GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Border agents intercept "destructive" Pakistani insects in Oakland

ISSUED BY: GCIS Communications Command Center

SOURCE: Homeland Security Newswire

25March2011 5:00amEST

GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: The Khapra beetle, which is native to India, can eat its way through up to 70 percent of grain stores to which it has access; it was eradicated in the United States in 1966, and has been subject to federal quarantine since then; U.S. border agents in the Port of Oakland discover -- and destroy -- the larva in a shipment from Pakistan. (read full report)

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