Recently, when the Shanxi Inspection and Quarantine Bureau conducted quarantine inspections on wooden pallets of goods from France, it found a live pest similar to the beetle family, as well as other live pests. Identified by a professional laboratory as a quarantine pest, the Australian beetle (Anthrenocerus australis), it was intercepted for the first time in Shanxi Province. Other intercepted pests included six species of ghost spiders, round arachnids, red-necked cockroaches, fire ants, swollen-legged bees, and small rod nematodes.
Australian beetle is an important reservoir pest, mainly harmful to fur and fur products, grains and their products, distributed in Australia, New Zealand, Britain, the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, there is no distribution in China. In accordance with the regulations, the inspection and quarantine personnel fumigated all the wooden pallets and containers at the first time, and the goods were released after passing the quarantine.