Serbian arugula with dangerous thrips almost got to Nizhny Novgorod in Russia

In the Pskov region, the Office of the Rosselkhoznadzor banned the import of 6.3 tons of arugula infected with a quarantine pest In the Sebezhsky district of the Pskov region, at a temporary storage warehouse, an official of the North-Western Interregional Directorate of Rosselkhoznadzor controlled the import of 6.3 tons of imported arugula salad. The cargo was transported by road from Serbia to the recipient registered in Nizhny Novgorod. In the course of the quarantine phytosanitary control, the state inspector found that the products were infested with an insect similar in morphological features to a dangerous quarantine object. Quarantine examination carried out at the Federal State Budgetary Institution "Leningradskaya MVL" identified the insect as Western California flower thrips (Frankliniella occidentalis Perg.). This pest is included in the Unified List of Quarantine Objects of the EAEU. The release of more than 6 tons of arugula into the territory of the Russian ...