The staff of Weifang Customs Office in Zhucheng recently intercepted a quarantine pest - pine wood nematode from the wooden packaging of a batch of imported goods, which is also the first time that this major national pest has been intercepted in the Jinan Customs Area.
Recently, when the staff of the Weifang Customs Office of Jinan Customs in Zhucheng, a subordinate customs office, conducted a control inspection of a batch of imported goods, three wooden packaging boxes that had been marked by the World Plant Protection Organization, they found suspicious symptoms.
Zhang Jianxun, staff member of Weifang Customs Office in Zhucheng: When we came, we found that there was a "blue change" phenomenon on the surface of the wood, and the blue change phenomenon meant that it might have this pine wood nematode.
During the month-long incubation process, customs officers found that the wooden packaging box contained live nematodes, which were identified by experts of Qingdao Customs Inspection and Quarantine Center as pine wood nematodes.
Su Baole, chief of the bonded business supervision section of weifang customs office in Zhucheng: Pine wood nematode is a quarantine pest that is strictly forbidden to enter China, a major national-level harmful organism determined by our country, and an internationally recognized extra-large destructive pest. We have about 7 million acres of pine wood in Shandong, if the pine wood nematode invades, the pine wood nematode it has three characteristics of its invasion, the first is that it is more harmful; the second dead tree is faster; the third is very difficult to control, then it is possible to give us Shandong Province pine wood, (cause) immeasurable losses.
Adult pine wood nematodes are about 14-16 microns long, equivalent to one-third the diameter of a hair. In China, pine wood nematode disease was first discovered in 1982 at the Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum in Nanjing, and the total number of pine trees lost due to pine wood nematode disease in the country reached billions of trees, resulting in direct economic losses and ecological service value losses of hundreds of billions of yuan. This time, the pine wood nematodes intercepted for the first time in the Jinan Customs Customs Area have the characteristics of strong concealment and great harm.
Su Baole, chief of the bonded business supervision section of the Weifang Customs Office in Zhucheng: A pine wood nematode was intercepted, and later we summarized the characteristics of three aspects. First of all, this pine wood nematode it is better hidden, hidden in the material with IPPC (World Plant Protection Organization processing logo) wood packaging, under normal circumstances with IPPC packaging logo, we generally let it go; the second is that the number of pine wood nematodes found this time is small, but they are all dominant populations, are extremely rapid growth of larvae; the third is that pine wood nematodes are mixed with a large number of slippery nematodes, that is, more harmful pine wood nematodes, Mixed in the harmful slippery blade nematodes, it is equivalent to the extremely harmful "enemy elements", mixed in the general "masses of the people".
At present, customs personnel have carried out supervision and destruction of wooden packaging boxes detected in accordance with the law.
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