A detection dog working with inspectors found a package at a FedEx depot in Sacramento that contained at least 100 live Asian citrus psyllids, including juveniles and adults, the L.A. Times reports. They were not carriers of the citrus greening disease that has devastated crops elsewhere, but last month at a FedEx depot in Fresno a dog found curry leaves from India infested with juvenile psyllids that were disease carriers.
Nature
100 live psyllids found in Norcal
More by Kevin Roderick:
Standing up to Harvey WeinsteinThe Media
LA Times gets a top editor with nothing but questions
LA Observed Notes: Harvey Weinstein stripped bare
LA Observed Notes: Photos of the homeless, photos that found homes
Recent Nature stories on LA Observed:
Cubs P-57 and P-58 have died in the Santa MonicasPalm weeds of Santa Susana
New male lions: Meet P-55 and P-56
P-51 found dead on freeway where mother and other cub died
Cub P-52 killed on same freeway as mother lion
Time for some weather geeking
P-39 hit and killed crossing freeway
King (or queen) of the mountain