SOUTHLAND : Medfly Found in Westminster
Trappers have discovered a fertile Mediterranean fruit fly in Westminster, a find that could signal a drastic expansion of the crop-destroying pest’s path of infestation, Orange County agricultural officials said today.
The non-pregnant fly was found late Thursday afternoon just south of the Garden Grove Freeway on Edwards Avenue--a full 10 miles farther south than the only previous detection in Orange County.
County officials immediately began blanketing the area around Westminster with more than 1,000 extra Medfly traps to try to determine the severity of the problem. It was not yet known whether the state will order malathion spraying for the area.
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