Recently, all of Tulare County, California was placed under quarantine by The California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) because the Asian Citrus Psyllid has been found here. This quarantine applies to homeowners, too. In a news release on Sept. 26, 2014, CDFA wrote that “residents with backyard citrus trees are asked to not remove fruit from the quarantine area. So, when family and friends from out of Tulare County are here for the holidays, do not send them home with sacks of citrus fruit, including oranges, grapefruit, lemons, limes — or any other kind of citrus. It also means that you cannot ship cartons of your own backyard citrus to relatives out of the County. This quarantine is required because the rapidly spreading psyllid is an invasive pest that can carry huanglongbing (HLB) disease, also known as greening disease. This disease has wiped out the citrus industry in Florida and many thousands of trees died. California regulators are working hard to prevent that from happening here.
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