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S. China Customs Finds Eelworms in Japanese Import Crates
Customs officers in south China's Hainan Province have found a pest extremely dangerous to conifers living in the crates of some newly arrived Japanese imports.
This is the first time that Hainan Customs detected eelworms of this kind in the wooden packaging of goods imported from Japan.
According to customs workers, some of the packages have gone mouldy when the goods were being cleared.
Experts confirmed the pests were eelworms after a laboratory analysis of a sample.
Dubbed the "cancer of conifers," these eelworms first attack the sap of pine trees and cypresses, and can kill a tree within a month.
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