Mexican Fruit Fly Find Prompts Setting of Traps
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The discovery of a Mexican fruit fly this week in a trap in South Los Angeles has prompted agriculture officials to set scores of new traps to determine if there is an infestation in the area or if the fly is a so-called “lone hitchhiker.”
The unmated female fly was found in a trap that had been set in a lemon tree in a residence not far from the city’s border with Vernon, said a spokesman for the state Department of Food and Agriculture.
As a result, workers will set 80 additional traps in the square mile around the spot, 40 traps in the square mile surrounding that and 20, 10 and five traps in the successive square-mile zones.
Some of the fruit that attracts the Mexican fruit fly is the same that appeals to the Mediterranean fruit fly.
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