On a recent Sunday, a mother in Taju was startled by a live tree frog as she opened the refrigerator, according to a report on Channel 7. It turned out that the tree frog was hiding in a bunch of bananas she bought from the Coles supermarket.
A tree frog hid in a bunch of bananas
According to Tasmania woman Sanders (Rebecca Saunders), she bought some goods on the Coles supermarket's website and used delivery on-site service. A few days ago, when she opened the package, she did not find a tree frog hiding in a bunch of bananas.
At first she couldn't help laughing when she found the tree frog in the fridge, but she was shocked to find that the frog was "smuggled" from Kunzhou.
A tree frog hid in a bunch of bananas
Saunders said she thought everything would be checked out of biosafety because of the recent drosophila panic.
A spokesman for Coles confirmed that the supermarket sold bananas from Kunzhou because it was too cold to grow bananas. When the bananas were brought in, they were not ripe before they were put on shelves locally, thus avoiding biosafety risks, as fruit flies could not survive in immature bananas.
(Department of Primary Industries, Parks, Water and Environment Tasmania), the state's primary industry, park, water and environment department, said all commodity import and export sites and state borders have relevant inspection procedures that reduce the number of pests entering the state, including frogs.
The agency also said it sometimes found individual frogs hiding in banana buns in shipments to Tasmania. At present, the department has launched an investigation into the relevant reports.
Apparently, the tree frog residents Sanders came across escaped the inspection, and the stowaway succeeded. Saunders confirmed that the tree frog had been taken away on Tuesday, when it was still alive.
A tree frog hid in a bunch of bananas