Customs intercepted mantises never seen in my country

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Customs intercepted mantises never seen in my country
Recently, when Zhongshan Port Customs and Zhuhai International Travel Health Care Center National Key Laboratory of Medical Vector Monitoring conducted joint quarantine on a batch of logs imported from Guyana at Zhongshan Port, a total of 10 cockroach adults and nymphs were intercepted. The on-site customs officers quickly Sampling is sent to the laboratory for identification, and quarantine treatment is strictly implemented for the same batch of goods.
The laboratory used morphological identification methods and DNA barcoding technology to detect and identify the batch of cockroaches. One of them was the cockroach Latin cockroach, which was confirmed by the national port vector biological monitoring and control expert group of the General Administration of Customs and was not distributed in China. This species was intercepted for the first time at a national port, and the remaining 9 were Australian cockroaches.
Cockroaches, commonly known as cockroaches, are important vector organisms and may carry unknown pathogens to endanger human health. Customs detected more than 70 species of pathogenic microorganisms among the 8 live cockroaches intercepted this time.

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