Recently, Yiwu entry-exit inspection and Quarantine Bureau of inspection and quarantine personnel in a group from Sierra Leone class imported red sandalwood wood material conduct on-the-spot quarantine, intercepted a large snail. Provincial Academy of inspection and quarantine laboratory identification, identified as African snail. This is the first time the Yiwu inspection and Quarantine Bureau of quarantine pests intercepted.

 

African large snail is a large land snail, commonly known as the brown cloud agate snail, originated in eastern Africa, has now spread to South Asia, Southeast Asia, Canada, the United States and other places. Adult shell length is generally 8 to 7 cm, the maximum can grow to more than 20 cm, weight up to 32 grams, fecundity, each spawning 150 to 300 grains, long life, long life into a snail life is generally 6 - 5 years, the longest up to 9 years. African big snail with vegetables, flowers and other crops for food, can harm more than 500 kinds of crops, is the risk of agriculture and forestry production of harmful organisms. At the same time, the species is the intermediate host of many human and animal parasites and pathogens, which can spread the disease such as tuberculosis and eosinophilic meningitis.