Read the full story here Web Link posted Wednesday, July 10, 2019, 8:52 AM
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Two peach fruit flies found in Palo Alto pose threat to native wildlife
Original post made on Jul 11, 2019
Read the full story here Web Link posted Wednesday, July 10, 2019, 8:52 AM
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a resident of Palo Verde
on Jul 11, 2019 at 8:51 am
This concerns me since we have fruit trees which are in season and producing wonderful fruit. Will we know if our trees have been sprayed? What will this do to our trees and more importantly to our fruit? Can we still eat our fruit which we have lovingly and painstakingly grown?
a resident of Barron Park
on Jul 11, 2019 at 9:40 am
Is this due to all of the imported fruit from Asia nowadays...maybe on route to 99 Ranch Market & other smaller Asian produce markets?
Thank goodness there were only two males found so far...without a female they cannot reproduce.
I remember the Mediterranean Fruit Fly spraying back in the 1980s with helicopters flying overhead. Very disruptive & it reminded me of the war back in Nam...perhaps a necessary measure to eradicate this new fruit fly.
Overhead spraying works!
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