Further interception of pine wood nematode in sawn wood
On 1990-01-28 a shipment of sawn wood arrived from Canada in Turku, Finland, and several bundles of boards were found by visual inspection to be damaged by woodboring insects, especially Monochamus spp. Many of the damaged boards contained living Monochamus larvae and larvae of other unidentified insects. Laboratory analysts showed Bursaphelenchus xylophilus in some of the lots and as a heavy infestation in the pieces of wood used to separate the bundles.
According to information received by the Finnish Plant Quarantine Service, this consignment had been certified and inspected according to the Official Debarking and Grub Hole Control System, supervised by the Canadian Government.
See also EPPO Reporting Service nos 501/14 and 502/01.
Sources
National Board of Agriculture, Finland.