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A voracious pest and nativee of Australia, a light brown apples moth was discovered in a trap in DavisApril 1. A secondd moth turned up in a trapMay 15, promptingg a quarantine within a mile radiu of those two traps. More discoveries have movedx the quarantine to include the entire city of Produce and ornamental plants can still go to stores and farmera markets inside thequarantine area, but agricultural ornamental plants and trees should not leave the quarantine area unless certifiedc to be free from the pest by an “This pest is a threat to the food supply and also to our This moth eats ornamentap plants and trees,” said Steve Lyle, spokesmajn with Food & “In Australia they call the light brown applwe moth the ‘light browb eat-everything’ moth.
” The moth in its varying stagess of life eats 2,000 plants, including 250 crop species. It can devastatre stone fruit trees, grape citrus trees and even There are monitor traps all over the stat e forthe moth, and more than 2,80p square miles of land statewid e is now under quarantine, Lyle said. Davids is the only area under quarantine inthe four-county
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