{"id":262298,"date":"2026-05-07T17:48:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T17:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/262298\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T17:48:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T17:48:10","slug":"miami-international-airport-processing-tons-of-flowers-daily-ahead-of-mothers-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/262298\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami International Airport processing tons of flowers daily ahead of Mother\u2019s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0May 7, 2026 at 12:38 PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MIAMI \u2014 Mother\u2019s Day is coming up this weekend, and Miami International Airport is working overtime as flowers are coming in by the tons, literally. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/05\/07\/aeropuerto-internacional-de-miami-procesa-toneladas-de-flores-diariamente-antes-del-dia-de-las-madres\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/05\/07\/aeropuerto-internacional-de-miami-procesa-toneladas-de-flores-diariamente-antes-del-dia-de-las-madres\/\">Leer en espa\u00f1ol<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Every single day, roughly 1,500 tons of flowers arrive at MIA, making them the airport\u2019s largest import.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Many of the beautiful blooms come from Colombia. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The flower industry generates about $1.8 billion in annual revenue. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Before those sweet-smelling arrangements arrive in your mother\u2019s arms, every petal gets inspected. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Invasive species could ruin the local ecology, which is almost as bad as disappointing mom with a bug in her bouquet. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cBehind every bouquet, there\u2019s a journey and a responsibility, because the vast majority of these flowers come right here into MIA,\u201d said Daniel Alonzo with U.S. Customs and Border Protection. \u201cNinety-one percent of all flowers come through here, and that\u2019s where our CBP specialist have been. They\u2019re not just here to move flowers quickly. Their role is to protect the American agriculture, our economy, and really our way of life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Gabrielle Arzola\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/https:\/\/author-service-images-prod-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/78673faa-0bcf-4b53-bb07-.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Gabrielle Arzola<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Gabrielle Arzola is an award-winning journalist and proud Miami native. For nearly a decade, she has reported across Florida, with previous stops in Gainesville and Tampa before returning home to cover the community she loves most.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0May 7, 2026 at 12:38 PM MIAMI \u2014 Mother\u2019s Day is coming up this weekend, and Miami International&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":262299,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-262298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}