L.A. fruit under quarantine

Several fruit fields in Los Angeles County have been placed under quarantine after nine Oriental Fruit flies were discovered. The California Department of Food and Agriculture announced the quarantine; the insect can be found in a wide range of fruits like apricot, avocado, banana, citrus, coffee, fig, guava, loquat, mango, roseapple, papaya, passion fruit, peach, pear, persimmon, pineapple, surinam cherry and tomato. However, avocado, mango and papaya are the most commonly attacked.

The insect uses the fruit as a food source as well as using fruit to borrow and lay its eggs. No word on whether other counties have been affected.