According to Glenn Frankhauser,
Assistant Ag Commissioner with the Kern County Ag Commissioners office in
Bakersfield, the neighborhood where the latest male Asian Citrus Psyllid was
trapped was surveyed over the weekend, and no additional Psyllids have been
found.
“We have finished deploying
another 150 delimitation traps around the initial find in a front yard citrus
tree near Wasco,” said Frankhouser. “The first mile and half out from the
initial find, all traps will be checked every day for the first week. And for the first month after that all the traps
will be checked once a week, and then after that, inspections will go to normal
servicing at once a month.”
Spraying has not commenced
yet in the area. “Once spraying does start, it will be of every citrus plant
800 meters around the initial find,” said Frankhouser.
One and a half miles around
the initial find is now a restricted area for the next two years, if no other
Psyllids are found. The restriction means no one is allowed to move any citrus
trees or citrus fruit from that area.