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Pest risk assessment of insects in sea cargo containers
- Source :
- Australian Journal of Entomology. 40:180-192
- Publication Year :
- 2001
- Publisher :
- Wiley, 2001.
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Abstract
- A survey of the floors of 3001 empty sea cargo containers in storage was undertaken to estimate the quarantine risk of importing exotic insect pests into Australia, with special reference to pests of timber. More than 7400 live and dead insects were collected from 1174 containers. No live infestations of timber-feeding insects were recorded, but feeding damage detected in one floor indicates a low risk of importing colonies of timber pests in containers. The survey collection of dead insects demonstrates that containers are regularly exposed to economically important quarantinable insects, including timber pests (bostrichids, curculionids, cerambycids, siricids and termites), agricultural pests (including Adoretus sinicus, Adoretus sp., Carpophilus obsoletus and Philaenus spumarius), and nuisance pests (vespids and Solenopsis sp.). Stored product pests were found in more than 10% of containers. The assessment of pest risk associated with shipping containers is discussed in terms of the quantity and quality of opportunities for exotic insects to establish via this pathway.
- Subjects :
- Entomology
biology
Adoretus
media_common.quotation_subject
Philaenus spumarius
Insect
biology.organism_classification
law.invention
Agronomy
law
Insect Science
Quarantine
PEST analysis
Pest risk assessment
Agronomy and Crop Science
Nuisance
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
media_common
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 14406055 and 13266756
- Volume :
- 40
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Australian Journal of Entomology
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........6839a455b8c912dc1f791223685346b3