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

Published 2023년 8월 7일

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Officials in St. Petersburg discovered an adult insect in a shipment of dried hibiscus from Nigeria, identified as the four-spotted caryopsis beetle, a dangerous quarantine pest of leguminous plants. As a result, the 18.2-ton shipment will either be destroyed, disinfected, or returned to the product owner at their expense. This is the first time this pest has been detected when importing regulated products into the jurisdiction of Rosselkhoznadzor from Nigeria.

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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 ...

Source: Agroxxi