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Tasmania has flipped out and shut down agricultural imports after discovering crop-destroying green snails taking up residence in two punnets of the imported fruit.<\/p>\n

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SEE ALSO: Australia used to be home to a flesh-eating marsupial because of course it did<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The green snail, native to Europe and the North Africa has a nasty habit of obliterating a variety of leafy vegetables as well as native vegetation, wheat crops and lucerne. As such there are strict quarantine laws<\/a> in place to ensure the spread of the pest to the rest of the country.<\/p>\n

Two West Australian growers have also recently halted imports of strawberries due to the discovery of the pesky snails. Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n

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Tasmania has flipped out and shut down agricultural imports after discovering crop-destroying green snails taking up residence in two punnets of the imported fruit. SEE ALSO: Australia used to be home to a flesh-eating marsupial because of course it did … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}