New Oriental Fruit Fly Quarantines for Parts of Southern California

California Department of Food and Agriculture has declared an end to the Oriental fruit fly quarantine in Orange County following eradication of the pest.

A portion of Orange County has been placed under quarantine for Oriental fruit fly following detections of multiple flies.

Nearly year-long collaborative effort successfully eradicated four invasive fruit fly species.

Latest eradication is the third Oriental fruit fly quarantine lifted in the Golden State this year.

Ag officials have declared the end of the Oriental fruit fly quarantine in Sacramento and Santa Clara counties following eradication of the invasive pest.

USDA-APHIS aims to protect hundreds of crops from invasive fruit flies with new comprehensive detection and exclusion plan.

All host fruit for the Oriental fruit fly to be removed from properties, with trees remaining in place.

USDA-APHIS expands Oriental fruit fly quarantine in response to more confirmed detections of adult flies from various trapping sites.

Recent finds involving multiple species of the flying pest have sparked seven different quarantines across the state.

The Oriental Fruit Fly pest is known to target more than 230 different fruit, vegetable, and plant commodities.

Oriental fruit flies discovered in traps around St. Petersburg area. Learn more about this pest that attacks more than 400 fruits, vegetables, and nuts.

State agriculture department officials and USDA announce another successful eradication of the invasive pest in Miami-Dade County.

Multiple findings of exotic pest push local agriculture officials to launch eradication efforts.

UF/IFAS researchers take optimistic route, say damage from last summer’s invasive pest onslaught could have been much worse.

Quarantine no longer in effect; products now allowed to move freely.

Efforts are under way to eradicate pest that attacks more than 230 different fruits, vegetables, and nuts.

Growers in China expected to follow set standards of production to prevent possible importing of new pests.