The Rugao Inspection and Quarantine Bureau actively carried out the monitoring of poisonous moths and strictly guarded the national gates

China Economic Network Jiangsu Rugao, June 16 (Correspondent He Xueming, Li Xiaozheng) In order to implement the national biosecurity monitoring work, the Jiangsu Rugao Inspection and Quarantine Bureau has actively organized staff to carry out monitoring of harmful organisms dancing poison moths and achieved results.

It is understood that the dance poison moth is also known as the swing caterpillar, apple poison moth, persimmon caterpillar, the caterpillar we often see in the summer, is the larvae of the dance poison moth, the dance poison moth first breeds in the wintering host life after hatching in the early spring, and then produces winged fetuses at the emergence stage and migrates to the cotton seedlings to reproduce.

According to inspection and quarantine experts, the larvae of the dancing poison moth can eat apples, persimmons, pears, peaches, apricots, cherries, chestnuts, oaks, poplars, willows, mulberries, elms, larchs, sassafras pines, oaks, plums, birch, hawthorns, maples, persimmon trees, lindens, spruce, masson pine, Yunnan pine, oil pine, birch pine, red pine and other more than 500 kinds of plants, and are also distributed in Jiangsu, with a wide range of hazards and even affecting export trade. The current control methods mainly include artificial egg collection method, artificial larval collection method, tobacco control, spray smoke control, light booby trap, sexual attractant trap.

As the main monitoring point of the entire Nantong area, in order to find the traces of the dancing poison moth as soon as possible, so as to provide guidance for the prevention and control of the dancing poison moth in the Nantong area, the inspection and quarantine staff adopts a combination of comprehensive monitoring and key detailed investigation, close monitoring, and meticulous investigation. In accordance with the requirements of the "Technical Guidelines for the Monitoring of Poison Moths" (2016), sex juvenile catchers were hung at three control points at the port to ensure the effectiveness of the monitoring work.