U.S. officials said an unprecedented outbreak of invasive fruit flies that took hold in California last year has been eradicated.
Just under a year after California began contending with a spread of invasive fruit flies not seen before in such large quantities, state and federal environmental officials announced that the pests had been eradicated statewide. Invasive species of wild fruit flies from other parts of the world were detected in unusually high quantities in 2023 across California , a state where agriculture is a vital industry.
That means thousands of acres worth of commercial agricultural land will no longer operate under restrictions brought in response to the fruit fly outbreak, they said. Properties within former quarantine zones had to comply with safety requirements set out by the state to ensure the pests did not multiply.
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