USDA confirmed the first recorded long horned beetle in the US was intercepted in a shipment of Costa Rican pineapples.
According to USDA, agriculture specialists with the Philadelphia branch of the US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) discovered the beetle Jan. 29 in a container of 1,575 cases of fresh pineapples. CBP secured the pineapples shipment for fumigation, and submitted the pest specimen to the local USDA entomologist for identification.