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Beetle lands in Baltimore

By Scott McCabe
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Customs and Border Protection agents at the Port of Baltimore have discovered a highly invasive wood-boring beetle aboard a crate sent from China.

The brown fir longhorned beetle poses a threat to some trees and landscape plants, and forced the U.S. Department of Agriculture to suspend certain wooden crafts from China in 2005.

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