PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — U.S. Customs and Border Safety officers in Philadelphia intercepted a package deal from Portugal containing 60 lifeless butterflies earlier this month, officers mentioned.
CBP agriculture specialists first inspected the parcel, which was labeled as “items of silk for use in works,” on Might 2 and located that it contained “dried out pupal instances and over 60 envelopes containing lifeless grownup moth and butterfly specimens of the order Lepidoptera,” in keeping with a information launch from CBP.
The specialists detained the package deal, which was certain for Wayne County in Northeast Pennsylvania, and reported it to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
The Fish and Wildlife Service regulates wildlife importation, together with lifeless specimens. The package deal of butterflies didn’t include invoices or import documentation that will have defined the species or objective of the package deal, in keeping with the discharge.
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“Customs and Border Safety agriculture specialists have a really difficult and demanding mission, and that’s to guard our very important agricultural sources in opposition to the unintentional or deliberate introduction of invasive insect pests, and plant and animal illnesses that would hurt our nation’s financial vitality,” CBP’s Space Port Director for Philadelphia Tater Ortiz mentioned in an announcement.
CBP agriculture specialists examine tens of 1000’s of worldwide air vacationers and air and sea cargo coming into the US day by day.
CBP Pictures/Handouts
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — U.S. Customs and Border Safety officers in Philadelphia intercepted a package deal from Portugal containing 60 lifeless butterflies earlier this month, officers mentioned.
CBP agriculture specialists first inspected the parcel, which was labeled as “items of silk for use in works,” on Might 2 and located that it contained “dried out pupal instances and over 60 envelopes containing lifeless grownup moth and butterfly specimens of the order Lepidoptera,” in keeping with a information launch from CBP.
The specialists detained the package deal, which was certain for Wayne County in Northeast Pennsylvania, and reported it to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
The Fish and Wildlife Service regulates wildlife importation, together with lifeless specimens. The package deal of butterflies didn’t include invoices or import documentation that will have defined the species or objective of the package deal, in keeping with the discharge.
CBP Pictures/Handouts
“Customs and Border Safety agriculture specialists have a really difficult and demanding mission, and that’s to guard our very important agricultural sources in opposition to the unintentional or deliberate introduction of invasive insect pests, and plant and animal illnesses that would hurt our nation’s financial vitality,” CBP’s Space Port Director for Philadelphia Tater Ortiz mentioned in an announcement.
CBP agriculture specialists examine tens of 1000’s of worldwide air vacationers and air and sea cargo coming into the US day by day.
CBP Pictures/Handouts
