Questions and answers concerning the Australian light brown apple moth, drawn from the California Department of Food and Agriculture and other sources: Q: When was light the brown apple moth first … ...

“Five years ago, the light brown apple moth was an emergency,” said Nan Wishner, of Albany, a board member of the California Environmental Health Initiative, a nonprofit group that has opposed ...

The light brown apple moth is from Australia and feeds on hundreds of different types of plants during its caterpillar stage. It can stunt and deform seedlings, ...

In September 2010, the California Department of Food and Agriculture quarantined a portion of San Diego County when the light brown apple moth was found one mile east of Balboa Park. The pest ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. The insatiable fruit- and leaf-eating light-brown apple moth may ...

APHIS has classified the light brown apple moth -- originally from Australia and confirmed in California in 2007 -- as an "actionable quarantine significant pest" and has applied its authority to ...

More Santa Clara County gardeners will find themselves in a quarantine zone following two new discoveries of the invasive agricultural pest known as the light brown apple moth. The new boundary ...

The moth that is causing all the fuss, the light brown apple moth, is not particularly distinctive in appearance. The female is yellowish-brown, often with a darker spot where the folded wings ...

When an inconspicuous moth that a retired entomologist found in his Berkeley backyard turned out to be a light brown apple moth -- Epiphyas postvittana, a major pest in its native Australia -- a ...

January 23, 2008 SANTA CRUZ — The state”s fight against the light brown apple moth will restart in late spring or early summer in Santa Cruz County, state agriculture officials said Tuesday.

Thanks to an article by Roxanne Webber on Chow, I discovered Veggie Trader, a site that helps people swap or sell their home-grown fruits and vegetables. Since the plants in our yard produce more ...