The Region - News from June 8, 1987
Poison bait and extra traps were set out in an eight-square-mile area near Laguna Beach after agricultural officials discovered three Oriental fruit flies in south Orange County trees. One of the crop-destroying flies was trapped in a backyard orange tree in South Laguna, and the other two were caught in a Laguna Beach loquat tree. The Oriental fruit fly is distantly related to the Mediterranean fruit fly that devastated crops in Northern California in 1981 but is considered less dangerous.
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