The other day, employees of the Main Directorate of Rosselkhoznadzor blocked a dangerous agricultural pest the way to the expanses of the Krasnodar Territory.
We are talking about a polyphagous humpback fly, which intended to enter the Russian Federation along with a large consignment of potatoes from Egypt.
However, the vigilant supervisory staff managed to make out among one hundred and forty-two tons of potato tubers at least five living pupae of the insidious insect.
Note that the humpback fly is the worst enemy of both agricultural crops of various crops and animals, as well as humans. The fact is that the favorite delicacy of such insects is plants, mushrooms, as well as stool, rot products and corpses.
Humpback fly
Omnivorous flies enjoy treating themselves even with shoe polish and petroleum jelly. And, penetrating the human or animal body, they can cause irreparable damage to the body, proliferate in the intestines of larvae and cause myiasis.
Fortunately, in the batch of Egyptian potatoes, phytosanitary inspectors recognized the presence of a quarantine object in time, and banned the import of goods into the territory of the Russian Federation.
At the moment, the potato is in quarantine, and in the future it will be sent back to Egypt, to the sender of the cargo.