It was learned from the official website of the Guangxi Entry-Exit Inspection and Quarantine Bureau that on July 4, the Nanning Inspection and Quarantine Bureau found a parcel containing Tongkat Ali wood chips in it when inspecting the entry parcel at the Anji Mail Processing Center, and the inspection and quarantine personnel intercepted the parcel according to law and carried out pest screening experiments. It was found that there were signs of insect activity in the Tongkat Ali wood chips and several insects were intercepted. It was sent to the Technical Center of Guangxi Inspection and Quarantine Bureau for identification, and confirmed to be three kinds of storage pests: Chizhigu bandits, book lice and small point bamboo long beetle, of which small point bamboo long beetle was intercepted for the first time in Guangxi. In accordance with the relevant regulations, the inspection and quarantine personnel destroyed the Tongkat Ali wood chips.
According to the relevant literature, the small dot bamboo beetle (Dinoderus ocellari Stephens) is distributed in Southeast Asian countries, Sri Lanka, India, Australia, is a pest of bamboo, the main host is oyster bamboo, dragon bamboo, teak, etc., the damaged bamboo is densely covered in tunnels, posing a greater threat to bamboo production, the insect has not been widely distributed in China.
Recently, the Nanning Inspection and Quarantine Bureau also intercepted 430g of shells from inbound parcels at the postal inspection port. When the inspection and quarantine personnel unpacked the parcels handed over by the customs through the postal service, the shells emitted an unpleasant smell of rotten fish. The shells are of varying shapes, colorful, numbering about 20, unprocessed and harmless. Insects were found during the opening of the box for quarantine, and they were sent to the Technical Center of Guangxi Inspection and Quarantine Bureau for identification and confirmed as tobacco A. Through contacting the recipient, the inspection and quarantine staff learned that the recipient was a shell collection enthusiast, and the batch of shells was started from the Internet to meet their own collection wishes. Shells are aquatic animal products that are prohibited from being mailed into the country, and according to the provisions of the "Directory of Animals and Plants and Their Products Prohibited from Being Carried and Mailed by the People's Republic of China", it is forbidden to bring aquatic animal products into the country, and the inspection and quarantine personnel detain the parcel according to law.
In July this year, the Nanning Inspection and Quarantine Bureau intercepted three batches of illegally imported shells. The inspection and quarantine department reminds that unprocessed shellfish that enter the country illegally is easy to carry storage pests, and do not buy online from abroad or bring them in at will.