Podocarps were introduced into the Ryukyu Islands to provide wood for Shinto shrines, but this created a golden opportunity for M. basalis pryeri to plunder the large monocultural podocarp plantations. Because of this, a cooperative program was once set up between the Ryukyu Islands and Taiwan to introduce natural enemies of M. basalis pryeri as biocontrols, and several in ternational conferences were held between the ROC and Japan.
過去琉球廣由外地引進羅漢松，作為神社材料，黃帶枝尺蛾幼蟲順天應人，把握良機，洗劫大片的羅漢松純林，琉球因此曾與台灣合作，計畫進口黃帶枝尺蛾天敵，中、日還為此開過多次跨國會議。