REDLANDS, Calif. (KABC) -- A mandatory state-led effort is underway in Redlands to strip trees of their fruit in order to protect against a fly infestation. State workers are expected to visit some ...

Q: Last year, my plum tree didn’t have any fruit at all. This spring, it has so many plums that I’m afraid the branches may break! Why? A: This phenomenon is called alternate-year bearing and is very ...

Workers are going door to door in the Redlands area to remove fruit from all citrus trees and other fruit-producing plants now through February, according to the California Department of Food and ...

There's nothing more embarrassing than inviting friends or family over, only for them to walk into a fruit fly-infested kitchen. And I'd know, because it happened to me on Friday when I threw a pizza ...

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USDA has cut by more than half the number of quarantines imposed in California over the last year to prevent the spread of fruit fly discovered in the Los Angeles area last July. Seven statewide ...

Officials have called for a quarantine in part of Orange County due to an infestation of the invasive pest. According to the California Department of Food and Agriculture, the oriental fruit fly, an ...