Yolo moth quarantine extended - Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal:

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A voracious pest and native of a light brown apple moth was discoverer in a trap in DavisApril 1. A seconf moth turned up in a trapMay 15, promptingv a quarantine within a mile radiu s of those two traps. More discoveries have moved the quarantine to includ the entire cityof Davis. Producde and ornamental plants can still go to stores and farmers markets inside the quarantine butagricultural products, ornamental plantxs and trees should not leave the quarantinre area unless certified to be free from the pest by an “This pest is a threat to the food supplt and also to our environment. This moth eats ornamental plant sand trees,” said Steve Lyle, spokesman with Food Agriculture.
“In Australia they call the light brown apples moththe ‘light brown eat-everything’ moth.” The moth in its varyin stages of life eats 2,00 plants, including 250 crop It can devastate stone fruit trees, grapde vines, citrus trees and even redwoods. Thers are monitor traps all over the statew forthe moth, and more than 2,800 square milesd of land statewide is now under quarantine, Lyle Davis is the only area under quarantine in the four-countyu region.