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A close up image of a brown slug
This month’s pest alerts include information about five new introduced terrestrial slugs in Hungary. Photograph by RodrigoQuarteu.

We’ve selected a few of the latest new geographic, host and species records for plant pests and diseases from CAB Abstracts. Records this month include the first record of the northern spruce bark beetle Ips duplicatus in Slovenia and information about five new introduced terrestrial slugs in Hungary.


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