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CENTERVILLE, Calif. — On a bright July morning, Adam Marler punched locations into a GPS device and set off in his pickup truck from Fresno into the back roads and citrus orchards of California’s Central Valley.
His mission: to thwart the invasion of the Asian citrus psyllid, a pest the size of a rice grain capable of carrying a disease deadly to citrus trees.
( Gosia Wozniacka / Associated Press ) - In this photo taken July 11, 2011, Taylor Henderson, left, and Caspian Taylor scan traps for the Asian citrus psyllid at the Citrus Research Board office in Visalia, Calif. The Asian citrus psyllid, a tiny gnat size pest that can carry a disease deadly to citrus trees, has already crippled and wiped out groves in Latin America, India, the Middle East and in Florida. California, which ranks second in the nation after Florida in citrus production, is now the most important front in the fight against the psyllid, because the pest has been found here _ but so far without the disease.
The disease, known by its Chinese name Huanglongbing but also called “citrus greening,” has devastated citrus orchards in Florida and other parts of the world, but it hasn’t touched California’s $1.8 billion industry. The Golden State ranks first in the nation in crop value and second after Florida in citrus production.
Marler, who works for the California Citrus Research Board, is one of 18 pest trappers who fan out daily across far-flung commercial groves to trap the psyllid and electronically map the tiny beast’s every move.
“It’s kind of like a war,” Marler said, “and California is the last frontier.”
California’s approach is novel, because it’s preemptive: it aims to eliminate the bacteria carrier before it can spread the disease. That’s because, unlike in Florida and elsewhere, relatively few invasive psyllids have made it to California thus far.
“We have a unique opportunity to be proactive in managing this insect to either prevent the introduction of the disease or to slow its movement,” said Citrus Research Board data director Richard Dunn.
Florida’s woes led California growers to consider the new approach. The invasive psyllid first arrived to Florida in 1998, but officials didn’t recognize its threat. When they first detected the disease six years later, the Asian citrus psyllid population had exploded and the disease spread like wildfire — a fate California hopes to avoid, said the board’s president Ted Batkin.
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(Associated Press) His mission: to thwart the invasion of the Asian citrus psyllid, a pest the size of a rice grain capable of carrying a disease deadly to citrus trees. The disease, known by its Chinese name Huanglongbing but also called "citrus
His mission: to thwart the invasion of the Asian citrus psyllid, a pest the size of a rice grain capable of carrying a disease deadly to citrus trees. ( Gosia Wozniacka / Associated Press ) - In this photo taken July 11, 2011, Taylor Henderson, left,
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