Apple moth may interfere with plant shipments

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Apple moth may interfere with plant shipments

Issue Date: May 9, 2007

By Ron Miller

Nurseries in Santa Cruz and San Mateo counties fear the loss of the huge Mother's Day markets as a result of an eight-county infestation of light brown apple moths.

In order for a shipment of nursery stock, cut flowers and plant materials to be permitted from nurseries located within 1.5 miles of moth trapping sites, it must be visually inspected and certified as free of the pest. Outside the 1.5-mile area, host item production facilities must be inspected once, and if pest free a certificate will be issued permitting shipments.

The federal order also requires survey trapping, nursery treatment applications and precautionary production practices within quarantine areas. The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) and the C... http://insurance-auto.ucoz.com/news/california_farm_bureau_insurance/2013-06-23-4023