pineapples at Mississippi port destroyed because butterfly

[jshuey]

$15,000 of pineapples at Mississippi port destroyed because of rare stowaway butterfly larvae - Larvae for the Saunders 1850 butterfly was discovered on Sept. 2, 2021, on a Dole shipment of pineapples from Costa Rica to Gulfport. It was the first seizure of this species in the U.S. www.nola.com/news/business/article_92475ad4-25ed-11ec-b42a-eb88ad526e05.html

Idiots in the news screwed up the name of the bug - but one article had a photos and it is Ancyluris jurgensenii jurgensenii (Saunders, 1850).

john

[foxxdoc]

someone in usda was capable of determining the species based on the caterpillar ??  if so I'm impressed.

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TOM

[jshuey]

Oct 19, 2021 7:54:17 GMT -8 foxxdoc said:

someone in usda was capable of determining the species based on the caterpillar ??  if so I'm impressed.

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TOM

They actually have many great taxonomists on staff. I mean - this is their job. Keep in mind, that many of the people who you think of as working for the Smithsonian, really work for USDA.


john

[foxxdoc]

John; you are right.

Did anyone try to raise them ?

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TOM