One official said the oriental fruit fly poses a ‘disastrous’ threat to the regional and state agricultural industries.
SANTA CLARA COUNTY — Officials planned two new rounds of pest-control efforgts after finding more West Nile virus-infected mosquitoes in San Jose and the discovery of fruit flies that carry a dire threat to local agriculture in Santa Clara.
“It would be disastrous for the oriental fruit fly to get established in Santa Clara County and California,” County of Santa Clara Agricultural Commissioner Joe Deviney said in a statement. Authorities also said they had detected other “suspected” fruit flies in the same area and were awaiting confirmation of those findings.
The treatment — which was set to begin Saturday night — will initially target the areas where the first fruit flies were located, but could expand over the next several weeks. The department will be applying bait containing a pesticide, spinosad, on street trees, utility poles and other locations 8 to 10 feet off the ground.
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