But in fact what is most worrying about the insect-which may have hitched a ride on a seed cone smuggled in by a sago grower, or escaped the gaze of customs officials hidden among the new leaves of a plant-is the fear that as well as attacking the improved, mass-produced king sago, it may also attack the wild Taitung cycas (Cycas taitungensis, a.k.a.
但針對這一可能是農民夾帶蘇鐵種球闖關，或躲在植物芽心逃過海關耳目的蟲兒，最讓人憂心的是台東蘇鐵保護區裡的「台東蘇鐵」是否被感染，因為相較於經過品種改良的量產蘇鐵，台東蘇鐵是只生長在台灣的特有種。