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A voracious pest and natives of Australia, a light browj apple moth was discovered in a trap in DavisAprilo 1. A second moth turned up in a trapMay 15, promptinbg a quarantine within a mile radius of thoswe two traps. More discoverie s have moved the quarantine to include the entire cityof Davis. Producee and ornamental plants can still go to storex and farmers markets inside thequarantine area, but agriculturalo products, ornamental plants and trees should not leavee the quarantine area unless certified to be free from the pest by an “This pest is a threat to the food supplty and also to our environment.
This moth eats ornamentap plantsand trees,” said Steve Lyle, spokesman with Food & Agriculture. “In Australi a they call the light brownh apple moththe ‘light brown eat-everything’ moth.” The moth in its varyingt stages of life eats 2,000 plants, includingb 250 crop species. It can devastate stone fruit grape vines, citrus trees and even There are monitor traps all over the stater forthe moth, and more than 2,800 squaree miles of land statewide is now undef quarantine, Lyle said. Davis is the only area undedr quarantine inthe four-county region.