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The article introduces the Aromia bungii Contingency Plan, designed to prevent the introduction of this highly destructive pest from Asia into Portugal, with a focus on fruit trees in the Prunus genus. The plan outlines steps for pest introduction prevention and eradication strategies in case of an outbreak. The pest has previously been detected in the European Union, including the UK, Germany, and Italy, and can harm a variety of tree hosts, especially stone fruits. More information can be found on the DGAV PT website.
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The Aromia bungii Contingency Plan aims to define actions to prevent the introduction of this pest in the national territory and establishes the necessary phytosanitary measures for its eradication, in the event of an outbreak being detected, thus preventing its spread. Originally from Asia, this emerging pest is considered extremely dangerous for fruit species of the genus Prunus, being capable of causing high damage to peach and apricot trees and being considered serious for plum and cherry trees. In the European Union it has already been detected in the United Kingdom (2008), Germany (2011 and 2016) and Italy (2012, 2013 and 2017). The main hosts of Aromia bungii are stone fruit trees of the genus Prunus, namely peach, apricot, plum, cherry and almond. The pomegranate, ...
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