Lawmakers hoping to aid citrus growers impacted by the Oriental fruit fly quarantine in the Redlands area and elsewhere in the state have asked Gov. Gavin Newsom to step in. In a letter to Newsom last ...

Local authorities and private sector representatives kicked off citrus shipments from the Coquimbo region with a visit to the ...

It was about a year ago that the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service requested assistance from south Texas residents due to an invasive fruit fly that is ...

A newly detected pest is coming for Texan’s margaritas. In December, Texas officials confirmed the presence of Mexican fruit flies, or Mexflies, at two Rio Grande Valley citrus groves, prompting ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. C&S Nursery co-owner Santiago Rosales Sr. stands in a quarantined section of his Baldwin Hills nursery. (Jason Armond / Los ...

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Q. Could you explain what is going on with the latest fruit fly quarantine? I heard that the Department of Agriculture was stripping fruit from trees in Redlands. A few weeks ago I wrote about the ...

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Have you ever unpeeled a banana and found tiny flies crawling around it, or had other produce swarmed by insects? You might be experiencing an influx of fruit flies (Drosophila melanogaster), which ...

The citrus trees at C&S Nursery in Baldwin Hills would normally be full of passionfruit, kumquats and other fruits this time of year. But last month, employees stripped dozens of them and placed them ...