Carry on a cactus?
Carry on a cactus?
Oct 26, 2012 | 6:03 pm
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Oct 26, 2012 | 9:02 pm
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Generally no......
You can bring seeds but what is done is that these are bagged and sealed by the seller. If the seal is broken it will not Lear.
This goes both ways when to and from Hawaii. You have to pass through agriculture clearance.
You can bring seeds but what is done is that these are bagged and sealed by the seller. If the seal is broken it will not Lear.
This goes both ways when to and from Hawaii. You have to pass through agriculture clearance.
Oct 27, 2012 | 5:53 pm
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Agriculture will also inspect FedEx, UPS, and USPS packages. I am sure due to the amount of packages, they can't check every single one. But it's possible that their sniff dogs will be able to detect it. I would suggest you leave the cactus in Hawaii.
Nov 15, 2012 | 11:22 am
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Recently a plant was imported TO Hawaii that carried a coqui frog. That frog now has populated the Big Island and we have no way to rid ourselves of it. Property values have dropped because of the noise.
Somehow a beetle the size of a fruit fly finally made it to the islands and has decimated our Kona Coffee crop.
There are important reasons for AG controls in and out of a location and one person can become a "Typhoid Mary" of plant diseases and pest distribution!
Concerning your cacti:
318.13 Notice of quarantine.
(a) Under the authority of sections 411, 412, 414, and 434 of the Plant Protection Act (7 U.S.C. 7711, 7712, 7714, and 7754), the State of Hawaii is quarantined to prevent the spread of dangerous plant diseases and pests, including the Mediterranean fruit fly (Ceratitis capitata (Wied.)), the melon fly (Bactrocera cucurbitae Coq.), the oriental fruit fly (Bactrocera dorsalis Hendl.), green coffee scale (Coccus viridis (Green)), the bean pod borer (Maruca testulalis (Geyer)), the bean butterfly (Lampides boeticus (L.)), the Asiatic rice borer (Chilo suppressalis), the mango weevil (Sternochetus mangiferae (F.)), the Chinese rose beetle (Adoretus sinicus Burm.), and a cactus borer (Cactoblastis cactorum (Berg.)), which are new to or not known to be widely prevalent or distributed within and throughout other States.