Xinhua News Agency, Shanghai, April 23 (Reporter Wu Yu) Shanghai Customs announced on the 23rd that during the on-site quarantine of a batch of stainless steel wood packaging from West Asia, a live locust was intercepted and identified by the laboratory as a male adult of the desert locust. . This is the first time this pest has been intercepted at a port in China.
After follow-up monitoring, no desert locust outbreak was found at the Shanghai Port. At present, Shanghai Customs strictly implements the requirements of the General Administration of Customs and strengthens the phytosanitary and port monitoring of incoming goods and transportation vehicles.
According to reports, the Shanghai Konghai Port has recently strengthened its quarantine line of defense, while strictly guarding against the importation of new outbreaks of new coronary pneumonia, it has tried its best to quarantine the imported commodities and successfully seized a number of harmful organisms such as the desert locust, pumpkin fruit fly, spruce octatus, Effectively build up the "national gate" of ecological security.
During the routine inspection of the international transit flight case, the customs of Pudong International Airport recently discovered an individual insect at the inner edge of the case. After identification, it was confirmed as a phytosanitary pest of pumpkin fruit fly. Pumpkin fruit flies, also known as South Asian fruit flies, have a wide host range and strong reproductive capacity, and are particularly harmful to cucurbitaceae fruits and vegetables.
The Waigaoqiao Port Customs recently intercepted more than 10 larvae of the pest Spruce octatus in a batch of spruce logs entering the Czech Republic. Spruce octacephalus is mainly harmful to coniferous trees such as spruce, larch, and red pine. Its reproductive ability is very strong, which can cause the entire forest to die. It is one of the most devastating aggregate forest bark beetles.
Shanghai Customs stated that the pests seized above were promptly implemented quarantine and detoxification treatment. At airports, Shanghai Customs took the initiative to respond to the recent rapid growth of international freight and transit business, innovated and implemented the "electronic fence + quarantine inspection" working system, and adopted quarantine pre-positioning and information pre-judgment methods to further improve the quality of port quarantine , To strictly prevent "biological invasion".
In addition to the visible pests, Pudong International Airport Customs recently joined hands with the Shanghai Customs Animal, Plant and Food Inspection and Quarantine Technology Center to confirm that two batches of corn seeds imported from Chile carry corn dwarf mosaic virus.
Maize dwarf mosaic virus is one of the causative agents of maize dwarf mosaic disease, which seriously harms many grasses including corn, sorghum and sugarcane, and can cause plant discoloration, dwarfing, infertility and early death.
The maize dwarf mosaic virus intercepted at the Pudong International Airport has not been reported in China. The relevant 3.91 tons of imported corn seeds have been supervised and destroyed.