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Last updated July 25, 2024
Press release materials
July 25, 2024
Green Environment Bureau Environmental Activities Business Division
Harumi Moriyama
Phone number: 045-671-3830
Fax: 045-550-4093
In the Yokohama Port survey of the national port survey conducted by the Ministry of the Environment every year, an ant found at Honmoku Pier on Monday, July 22, 2024, were identified by experts, as a result of identifying species. Confirmed as a fire ant.
Insecticide bait (Bate agent) is installed around the confirmation site.
Yokohama City will continue to cooperate with the survey and control conducted by the Ministry of the Environment.
The place where the ants were confirmed is in the container yard, and it is an area where ordinary people cannot enter. In addition, there were no reports of human damage in this case.
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Green Environment Bureau Park Green Space Department Environmental Activity Business Division
Phone: 045-671-3448
Phone: 045-671-3448
Fax: 045-633-9171
Email address: mk-katsudojigyo@city.yokohama.jp
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