"Don't dry quilts, clothes, and don't eat outside food (open air food such as barbecues) on May 15-25. Minimize suburban, outdoor activities. The plane sprinkled medicine to cure the white moth, and everyone passed on the love", yesterday, this quite loving news spread wildly in the circle of friends of Chengdu people.
The barbecue does not dare to eat, the quilt can not be dried, even the door must be less out? The situation is so serious, the Chengdu Business Daily client reporter conducted an investigation in order to understand the truth of the matter, and this news is likely to come from Huaibei City, Anhui Province. Authoritative sources said that Chengdu does not have any "white moth" such a pest and disease, and there is no pesticide plan that can "endanger" the lives of Chengdu people.
Several counties in Huaibei, Anhui Province, shocked the whole country by taking medicine
"You don't want to go to the barbecue recently, oh, the circle of friends said to be on the medicine, I will immediately transfer the information to you." The reporter received a call from the elderly at home early in the morning, repeatedly reminding the dangers of barbecue. Subsequently, the reporter received a warm reminder of the above-mentioned words. Is it really that dangerous? Is there such a thing? The reporter's online search found that this news not only blew up the circle of friends in Chengdu, but also caused a lot of movement in Domestic cities such as Nanjing, Xiamen, and Dalian, and local cities have refuted rumors.
Where is the source of this news? The reporter found that in recent years, the control of the American white moth is being carried out in many provinces and cities in China, but in line with the news time, it is a notice issued by the Forestry Bureau of Huaibei City, Anhui Province, on May 12, which said that the city's one county, three districts and 18 towns (offices) have occurred in the United States white moth hazard, and it is planned to use aircraft spraying for prevention and control from May 15 to May 25, 2016. The circular specifically explains that the drugs of fly prevention are efficient and low-toxic, safe and harmless to people and livestock, and have no pollution to the environment, but affect the growth and development of crabs, shrimps and snakes, and have a killing effect on insects such as silkworms, shrimp and crabs, bees, soil elements, grasshoppers, etc., and also remind not to dry food and place drinking water outdoors.
Anhui Province is located in Huaibei City, north of Anhui Province, during the concentrated outbreak and rapid spread of the American white moth, which is the highest risk level of the American white moth in the province in 2016. However, a circle of friends message affected Chengdu more than 1500 kilometers away.
Sichuan did not find the white moth aircraft spraying drugs are in a small area of forest areas
"If there had been an American white moth, it would have been loud a long time ago!" Ye Fanggen, director of the Chengdu Forest Disease and Pest Control and Quarantine Station, said that as far as he knows, no American white moth has been found in Sichuan Province.
The American white moth is a worldwide quarantine pest with devastating hazards to fruit and trees, and was introduced to the Northeast from abroad in 1979. According to records, when the American white moth disaster occurred in the northeast, everywhere it went, the branches of trees fell, as if experiencing a "smokeless fire". So far, beijing, Tianjin, Hebei, Liaoning, Shandong, Jilin, Henan, Jiangsu, Anhui and other provinces and cities have been affected by the American white moth. Sichuan Province is also a suitable area for the American white moth, but no disease of the American white moth has been found. "This pest is omnivorous, trees and crops are eaten, and once a disaster occurs, it must be one by one." Ye Fanggen said.
Although there is no American white moth, Chengdu is also carrying out the control of other diseases and insect pests, and a small range of aircraft spraying is carried out in the forest areas of Dujiangyan, Jintang, Pujiang and other places for the control of diseases and insect pests such as The Yunnan pine caterpillar and the Northern Shu poison moth. "We mainly use helicopters to spray medicine a few meters above the canopy." He said that the helicopter directly sprinkled the drug directly on the tree, and the operating height was at most 20 or 30 meters, and it would not spread at all, let alone spread to the urban area of Chengdu. He also said that the drugs used by FeiFang are environmentally friendly low-toxic drugs that will not cause harm to people, and there is no need to panic as weChat said. "Chengdu's flight prevention plan in May has been completed, and the rest of the prevention and control work is mainly done by hand."
Chengdu Business Daily reporter client reporter Xie Jiajun Editor Jing Lingyan (Picture from the Internet)