When we debarked from the plane in CA last week, I noticed a woman 2 rows in front of me carrying a couple of small plants in a plastic bag. The thought occurred to me: CA is so careful preventing fruit and plant material from other states entering on its highways, who watches the airports? I’ve never been checked for plant material when flying in.
Thank Nixon.
Our early ancestors had good reasons for splitting off into tribes, it tends to isolate and contain such plagues. They were smart enough to learn from experience and history and to listen to their instincts.
Thank you, supporters of Free Trade with Communist China. You do not get those bugs from Disney World visitors from Hong Kong
Another end result of Free Trade
Just wondering...what pests are we sending to China?
Monoculture is bad. Citrus farmers need to rotate crops.
Has anything good ever come from China?
I fear this will not be the last time we hear that phrase.
There may be a GMO answer for this, but I imagine the luddite left will set up a howl, on the grounds that it is preferable to live without oranges than to unleash science.
I remember as a kid long ago, we were crossing the Canada border. We had a bunch of peaches & tomatoes which were not allowed to cross. We were all furiously eating them as we rolled up to the border guard. He laughed. We wound up handing him a bag of delicious fruit.
Omg! Another certain calamity! Doom is upon us! Whatever will we do????
Wait ... I’m sure that the cure for this latest catastrophe is a bunch of money. Some kinda government handout or subsidy or program or something. Right?
I’m sure we’ll see plenty of isolationist anti-trade posts blaming interaction with China for this pest. I wonder if any of the posters realize that oranges are not native to the west, and are thought to have originated in China.
I know that the number of juice processing plants, in the state, have been reduced, dramatically, in number, over the past few years. Complaint for many years has been, there’s not enough fruit to keep all these plants running to the max and profitable. Now this, along with greening, different viruses that have cropped up, is reducing the quantity and quality of both, the groves and the fruit. What a shame!