llegal beetles shipped to my town from Taiwan

[bjaeger]

Check it out:

http://readingeagle.com/article.aspx?id=91868

That's crazy! Those beetles are gigantic!

It happened right down the street from me at the post office.

My friend's dad thought it was me receiving the beetles

 

[glamiswarrior]

i wonder what they did with them?? destroyed them i assume. wish they would've given them to a zoo or something.

 

[Matt K]

Since they are considered evidence, they are kept. Unfortunately they are kept in a jar of (ethyl?) alchohol with documentation taped to the outside of the jar. They may remain on a shelf somewhere for years....

 

[cjm1991]

Id LOVE to have a beetle like that, its amazing.:drool:

 

[Eclipse]

i wonder what they did with them?? destroyed them i assume. wish they would've given them to a zoo or something.

Yeah that was pretty retarded. They could have donated them to the zoo or given them to an entomology research lab.

:wall:

 

[TalonAWD]

If you read to the end of the report, you will see that it states...

Customs and Border Protection officials said the beetles will be frozen and sent to the U.S. Department of Agriculture for official identification.

 

[Elytra and Antenna]

If you read to the end of the report, you will see that it states... "Customs and Border Protection officials said the beetles will be frozen and sent to the U.S. Department of Agriculture for official identification."

It's amazing the concern about harmless beetles that they know can be killed by freezing when Pennsylvania goes below freezing a chunk of the year.

 

[Aztek]

True that.

 

[Eclipse]

If you read to the end of the report, you will see that it states...

That still counts as killing them...

 

[bjaeger]

They could've given them to me lol

Is it illegal to have inverts shipped through the mail like these dealers on here do everyday? I tell my dad to leave instructions for the postman to leave any boxes (my Ts) on the side porch and to ring the doorbell, so he mentions on the note that they are live bugs! With what just happened I couldn't imagine that that would've went down smooth at all.