The U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and Agriculture Department (DA) found a new species of pest in a shipment of pineapples from Guatemala.
A CBP agriculture specialist inspecting the 50,000-ton imported fruit cargo in Freeport, Texas found a weevil she could not identify in the pineapples and later learned from the DA, where a specimen of the pest was sent for examination, that it was a new weevil species.