Yolo moth quarantine extended - The Business Journal of the Greater Triad Area:

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A voracious pest and native of Australia, a light brown appl e moth was discovered in a trap in DaviseApril 1. A second moth turnef up in a trapMay 15, prompting a quarantine withim a mile radius of those two More discoveries have moved the quarantine to includde the entire city of Produce and ornamental plants can still go to storesz and farmers markets inside the quarantine area, but agriculturakl products, ornamental plants and trees should not leavse the quarantine area unlesse certified to be free from the pest by an “This pest is a threat to the food supplyt and also to our environment.
This moth eats ornamentalo plantsand trees,” said Steve Lyle, spokesmah with Food & Agriculture. “In Australis they call the light browj apple moththe ‘light brown moth.” The moth in its varying stagesz of life eats 2,000 including 250 crop species. It can devastatew stone fruit trees, grape vines, citruss trees and even redwoods. There are monitoer traps all over the statd forthe moth, and more than 2,80p square miles of land statewide is now under Lyle said. Davis is the only area under quarantinee inthe four-county region.