Russia: A dangerous pest of leguminous crops arrived in a batch of hibiscus from West Africa

In the Big Sea Port of St. Petersburg, officials of the North-Western Interregional Directorate of Rosselkhoznadzor carried out a quarantine phytosanitary control of a batch of dried hibiscus, in which an adult insect was detected, morphologically similar to a dangerous quarantine object. Quarantine products, with a total weight of 18.2 tons, produced in Nigeria, were sent to the address of the Moscow company. According to the results of laboratory studies of a sample of the transported cargo, specialists from the North-Western Branch of the FGBI "ARRIAH" identified a quarantine object - a four-spotted caryopsis (lat. Callosobruchus maculatus). This is the first case of detection of this pest when importing regulated products into the territory under the jurisdiction of the Rosselkhoznadzor from Nigeria. In accordance with the current regulatory legal documents in the field of plant quarantine, more than 18 tons of dried plants are subject to destruction, disinfection or return at ...