PLANT QUARANTINE INSPECTOR California Form

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A disease that kills citrus trees has been discovered in Rancho Bernardo. Good evening and thank you for joining us. I'm Carlo chiquito. I'm Marcella Lee. Tonight, a citrus quarantine is in place in a 95 square mile area as the California Department of Food and Agriculture tries to save San Diego citrus crops. CSA Santa Laurel went inside that quarantine area to find out what you need to know. I'm here in the neighborhood off the 15 and the 56. I'm going to show you a map of the affected area in just a minute because authorities are asking if you live within the quarantine area and it's huge. They're asking that you don't pick the oranges, the lemons, the limes that are growing in your yard and take them to work or something. They don't want you to share that they're trying to cut down on the spread and kill these little bugs. We have detected the disease Wong Long Bang or HLB and three residential citrus trees in the community of Rancho Bernardo. Wong Long Bing, the plant disease that