Pests > Pest Management > Quarantine > Interceptions > Molluscs > Helix aspera, pallets, Fiji
Pests Pest Management Quarantine InterceptionsMolluscs Helix aspera, pallets, Fiji
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| October 2006. The identity of this snail was requested. It’s shell is 2.5 cm long and 1.5 cm high. It was intercepted by Fiji quarantine on wooden pallets; these were later fumigated.
It appears to be the brown garden snail, which used to be Helix aspera and now is Cornu aspersum, considered worldwide to be a very damaging pest to most horticultural and agricultural crops.
The same snail was intercepted in Samoa on containers that had originated from New Zealand. |
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