New Medfly Find Spurs Stepped-Up Trapping
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Agricultural officials said Tuesday that another Mediterranean fruit fly had been discovered, prompting high-density trapping but no aerial malathion spraying.
The mature male Medfly was found Monday in a trap in a guava tree in the 400 block of Rimpau Boulevard in Hancock Park. The discovery was made about 1 1/2 miles northwest of the current Medfly treatment area, within the already established Medfly quarantine boundaries.
Intensified trapping and fruit-cutting will begin immediately around the newest find, and ground treatment with malathion bait will be scheduled for next week. Meanwhile, ground-spraying resumed Tuesday in an area near Koreatown, where eight Medflies have been found since Oct. 7.
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