Pests > Pest Management > Quarantine > Interceptions > Molluscs > Helix aspera, pallets, Fiji



Pests > Pest Management > Quarantine > Interceptions > Molluscs > Helix aspera, pallets, Fiji

Pests Pest Management Quarantine InterceptionsMolluscs Helix aspera, pallets, Fiji

Helix aspera

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.