More than 2,000 homeowners in San Bernardino County will have the fruit ripped from their trees, whether they like it or not, as state agriculture officials desperately try to eradicate the invasive Oriental fruit fly. Workers are going door to door in the Redlands area to remove fruit from all citrus trees and other fruit-producing […]
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California is under attack. Agriculture officials sounded the alarm on Friday after two Queensland fruit flies were found in Ventura County, marking at least the third discovery of invasive and destructive fruit flies in the Los Angeles area in recent months. A 76 square mile area was placed under quarantine on Oct. 23 after the […]
It’s fly vs. fly in the skies over Los Angeles. Earlier this month, the California Department of Food and Agriculture quarantined 69 square miles of metro L.A. after invasive and destructive Mediterranean fruit flies were found at a home in Leimert Park. Now, officials are planning to use small planes to drop millions of the […]