Chinese customs officers in Harbin City, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, recently prevented a potentially-harmful kind of quarantine pest from entering China and disturbing the local ecosystem. 

The pests were found in mangoes in the suitcase of a traveler who flew from Vietnam to Harbin Taiping International Airport. Customs officers confiscated the mangoes for inspection and found they contained larvae, which was later discovered to be a species of fruit fly named Bactrocera correcta. 

After four weeks of cultivation, the larvae grew into adult insects. Experts identified them as the Bactrocera correcta, a kind of quarantine pest. 

Mainly distributed in Southeast Asian countries, the Bactrocera correcta species will lead to extensive yield reduction of cash crops, even total crop failure. 

Officers have carefully disposed of the mangoes in question.

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