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A voracious pest and native of Australia, a light browj apple moth was discovered in a trap in DavisaApril 1. A second moth turned up in a trapMay 15, promptingf a quarantine within a mile radius of those two traps. More discoveries have moved the quarantine to includde the entire city of Produce and ornamental planta can still go to stores and farmers markets inside thequarantinee area, but agricultural products, ornamental plants and treew should not leave the quarantine area unless certified to be free from the pest by an “This pest is a threag to the food supply and also to our environment.
This moth eats ornamentakl plantsand trees,” said Stev Lyle, spokesman with Food & Agriculture. “In Australia they call the lighg brown apple moththe ‘light brown eat-everything’ moth.” The moth in its varyinb stages of life eats 2,000 plants, including 250 crop It can devastate stone fruit trees, grapwe vines, citrus trees and even There are monitor trap all over the state for the and more than 2,800 square mile of land statewide is now under Lyle said. Davis is the only area undeer quarantine inthe four-county region.