LAREDO, TX.- Mother's Day celebration left a seizure of flowers in banned in the United States with the detection of a plague in a shipment of lisianthus.
A report from the Bureau of Customs and Border Protection indicates that this past weekend the surveillance at the international ports of entry was intensified, in order to detect anyone who was trying to bring into the U.S. any prohibited agricultural product for mother's day.
The federal agents detected a dangerous plague in 150 stems of a flower called Lisianthus. This type of plague or leaf worm, denominated Copitarsia, is a very dangerous work for agriculture, which has not yet been detected in the United States.
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