It can harm 100 kinds of herbs, woody plants and lianas. zhongshan port recently intercepted this national second-class pest for the first time.

(Reporter correspondent Chen Guide) Can two or three small snails actually eat all the plants in a state in the United States? This terrible guy is an African snail. The reporter learned yesterday that two of these terrible African snails were found in quarantine at Zhongshan Port recently. It is said that these African snails are more destructive than "piranha".

It is understood that the staff of Zhongshan Port Office of Zhongshan Inspection and Quarantine Bureau found two live snails on a batch of wooden cases of stainless steel waste from Taiwan Province Province during on-site inspection and quarantine. Appraised by the Plant Quarantine Laboratory of the Technical Center of Zhongshan Inspection and Quarantine Bureau, and rechecked by experts from the Plant Quarantine Laboratory of the Testing Center of Guangzhou Inspection and Quarantine Bureau, these two little guys are African giant snails, and China is forbidden to enter the country. This is the first time that Zhongshan Inspection and Quarantine Bureau has intercepted such creatures at Zhongshan Port. The staff of Zhongshan Port Office immediately fumigated and disinfected the goods and containers strictly.

According to reports, African giant snails, because of their large size, beautiful appearance and delicious meat, can easily be directly introduced as ornamental and edible, or smuggled into the country, becoming a man-made disaster. Quarantine officers said that African giant snails are also important carriers of parasites and plant pathogens, which can spread clonorchiasis, tuberculosis, eosinophilic meningitis and extensive eyeliner diseases in people and animals.

It is reported that African snails breed very fast, and once introduced, they can spread rapidly through various channels. 1966, because a child brought 2-3 African snails from Hawaii to Miami. Within three years, they were all over Miami, and the flowers and plants in the garden were almost eaten up, making them the most terrible dried snails. From 65438 to 0932, Taiwan Province Province was introduced and propagated as food, and part of it was abandoned in the fields, which led to the devastating disaster of agriculture in Taiwan Province Province in the 1950s.

African snails are native to Madagascar in East Africa. It is very gluttonous, with strong reproductive ability and strong resistance. It can harm 100 kinds of herbs, woody plants and vines, and it will cause serious harm to vegetables, flowers, sweet potatoes and peanuts, and even eat up plant branches and leaves.