Xiamen Customs intercepted the "fruit killer" Mediterranean real fly

According to the Xiamen Network on April 18, the appraisal results of the Xiamen Customs Technology Center showed that the pests detected by the Xiamen Customs Airport Customs in the travel inspection channels were Mediterranean real flies with extremely high quarantine risks, commonly known as "fruit killers".

On April 1, customs officers were on a mission to supervise flight KL883 from Amsterdam to Xiamen when they noticed an anomaly in the image of a Chinese passenger carrying baggage passing through the plane. After the inspection, it was confirmed that it was carrying a bag of fruit weighing 0.95kg, so the batch of fruits was intercepted according to the regulations, and after quarantine, it was found that one of the oranges had water-stained dark brown spots on the peel, and the resulting flesh had rotted and was full of maggot-shaped larvae live. The on-site customs officer immediately sealed the orange and sent it to the laboratory for cultivation and observation, and the rest of the fruit was supervised for destruction. After half a month of cultivation, a number of fruit flies were feathered in the oranges with insects, which were identified as Mediterranean fruit flies and were quarantine pests.

It is understood that the Mediterranean fruit fly is recognized as one of the most destructive fruit pests in the world: one is a wide host, more than 250 species of plants; the second is to reproduce extremely fast, from 1 breeding to 21.5 billion only 60 days; the third is the harm, the larvae eat the flesh and make the whole fruit rotten, serious when the whole orchard particles are not harvested, so it is called "fruit killer". Florida reportedly spent $7 million and $11 million to control the pest in 1929 and $11 million, respectively, while California spent $100 million in 1980-1982.

At present, the pest is not yet distributed in China, so the quarantine risk is extremely high, and once introduced, it may cause immeasurable economic losses to China's fruit planting industry. Xiamen Customs calls on passengers to abide by the relevant laws and regulations of the state, not to bring fresh plants such as fruits, vegetables and other fresh plants and their products into the country, to keep dangerous foreign diseases and insect pests out of the country, and to jointly guard the national gate for biosecurity.