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The parcel sent from Japan contains fat bugs, and strange insects with long eyes on the horns hide in the sour corners... In recent years, with the rapid development of new formats such as international commerce, overseas tourism, cross-border e-commerce, and inbound express mail, the illegal carrying and mailing of animals and plants and their products that are prohibited from entering the country has increased significantly, and the risk of alien biological invasion cannot be ignored. From 2016 to the first half of this year, Guangxi ports intercepted 1,564 species of alien pests and 40,873 times inbound and outbound cargo, passenger carry-ons, mailings, containers and other means of transport. The quarantine department reminds that not everything can be brought into the country by sea, and if you don't pay attention, passengers will become "porters" of foreign pests and "second hands" of animal and plant epidemics.
The Qinzhou Inspection and Quarantine Bureau intercepted live mosquitoes and larvae on board inbound vessels
There are hidden pests in the fruits that passengers bring in
On July 4, the Nanning Comprehensive Bonded Office of the Guangxi Entry-Exit Inspection and Quarantine Bureau (hereinafter referred to as the "Bonded Office") inspected the international parcels of entry and found that a parcel sent from Japan declared as a "model" contained several fat white insects and four bottles of eggs. Live insects and eggs are stored in plastic boxes of soil. After preliminary identification, the beetle larvae is a giraffe saw shovel, and the eggs contain species such as Euphorbia longifolia and giraffe saw shovel, which are intercepted for the first time in Guangxi.
On July 17, in the preliminary screening laboratory of the Nanning Airport Office of the Guangxi Inspection and Quarantine Bureau, a strange-looking insect revealed its true face - the white Horned Elephant. Recently, when inspecting the luggage of an inbound passenger in Vientiane, Laos, the inspection and quarantine personnel found that there were many worm eyes on the acid horns he was carrying, and immediately intercepted them. After identification, this insect has not been found in China, and it is the first time that it has been intercepted at ports in china.
Biological invasion causes annual losses of 200 billion yuan
These are just two cases of foreign pests recently intercepted at the Guangxi port. According to statistics, about half of the 100 most destructive invasive alien species released by the International Union for the Conservation of Natural Resources have invaded China, causing direct economic losses of 200 billion yuan per year. Guangxi is connected with the sea, land and air ports of ASEAN countries, the epidemic situation of animals and plants in ASEAN countries is more complicated, with the rapid development of new formats such as cross-border tourism, e-commerce direct purchase, inbound express mail, etc., illegal carrying and mailing prohibited from entering the country of animals and plants and their products have increased significantly.
It is understood that from 2016 to the first half of this year, Guangxi ports intercepted 40,873 times of 1,564 species of pests of animals and plants entering the country in goods, passengers' carry-on goods, mail, containers and other means of transport. Among them, last year, 26 kinds of harmful organisms such as bacteriophage poison beetle, orange band blue ruler moth, shell fungus and other harmful organisms were detected for the first time in the national port, and 8 kinds of quarantine pests such as american eagle tooth beetle, red fat large and small beetle, and accompanying isotine long beetle were detected at the guangxi port; in the first half of this year, 6 kinds of harmful organisms were intercepted for the first time at the national port.
Improve laws and regulations to strengthen law enforcement and judicial linkages
"Live animals such as pet turtles and lizards themselves will carry various epidemics of foreign diseases and diseases, which will endanger human health; while plants and propagating materials such as seed seedlings are very easy to carry viruses, fungi, nematodes and other harmful organisms, which can spread through cuttings, soil, water and other means." According to Liang Minwen of the Plant Quarantine Department of the Animal and Plant Inspection Department of the Guangxi Inspection and Quarantine Bureau, once invasive alien species enter China's territory, they will cause immeasurable damage to China's ecosystem and biodiversity, and will bring harm to China's ecological environment and national health.
Zheng Yaka, director of the Bonded Affairs Office, said that the goods carried by the inbound personnel and the incoming mail have the characteristics of large quantities, wide sources, miscellaneous categories and scattered flows, and many extremely destructive quarantine pests are often hidden in fruits and other items that look like ordinary "harmless people and animals".
It is reported that the latest standards for filing and prosecuting the crime of "obstructing the quarantine of animals and plants" will be introduced soon. Li Weifeng, director of the Animal and Plant Inspection Department of the Guangxi Inspection and Quarantine Bureau, said: "We must make good use of legal weapons, earnestly strengthen the linkage between travel postal inspection and law enforcement and criminal justice, and increase the investigation and punishment of lawbreakers." ”
■ Data speaks
From 2016 to the first half of this year, Guangxi ports intercepted 40,873 times of 1,564 species of animal and plant pests
■ Know a little more
Look at some of the "foreign pests" intercepted at Guangxi ports over the years
Ocean rump-like pink borer
Source: When the Shuikou Port inspected the passengers' belongings, they intercepted fruits (rambutan, Buddha's head fruit) that were prohibited from being brought into the country.
Features: The oceanic gluteal mealybug is an alien species that is widely distributed in tropical areas such as the Philippines, Vietnam and Thailand, and is also suitable for survival in subtropical areas along the southeast coast of China.
Hazards: Mainly harmful tropical and temperate fruits, but also affect important cash crops such as soybeans, corn, potatoes, ornamental flowers, etc., known as "fruit killers".
Asian rainforest black scorpion
Source: Vietnam. From a small truck carrying icefish, it was found that this was the first time that a live Asian rainforest black scorpion had been intercepted at Dongxing Port, and the first time that such a large number of live scorpions had been intercepted in Guangxi
Features: Alias false monarch scorpion, mainly distributed throughout Southeast Asia, native to the Asian tropical rainforest, weak toxicity.
Hazards: May carry harmful pathogenic bacteria to cause the risk of epidemic transmission, and even endanger human health
Handling: Return and export processing in accordance with the law.
Blood-sucking flies stable stinging flies
Source: Singapore. It was found in the packaging of a batch of illegal inspection goods entering Singapore that this was the first time that the imported vector organism was intercepted at the Nanning Airport Port.
Features: The stable fly, also known as the blood-sucking stable fly, is distributed worldwide. Adults are 5 to 10 mm long and gray-brown with brown tinges. He is mainly active during the day, sucking the blood of livestock and occasionally people. The larvae breed in humus and chicken manure, and the old mature larvae pupate in the soil.
Hazards: Pathogens that directly affect the health and productivity of livestock and can spread anthrax and trypanosomiasis.
Plant parasitic nematodes
Source: Vietnam. It was intercepted from the carry of an entry officer at dongxing port
Hazards: Parasitize in the body of plants, harm plants, cause plant diseases, cause yield loss or the quality of plant products deteriorates, or even dies.
Treatment: Seedlings and other plant materials and soils with reproductive capacity are animals and plants and their products that are prohibited from being carried or mailed in China, and the plants are deficient in accordance with the law.
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