quarantine

When a Medfly quarantine in L.A. ended this summer, you could be forgiven for asking, “A what quarantine?”

The cities of Santa Ana and Garden Grove have been placed under quarantine Wednesday in light of an uninvited and unwelcome visitor: the oriental fruit fly, an invasive pest that attacks over 230 crops including fruits, nuts and vegetables.

The order by the California Department of Food and Agriculture bars fruit from within the quarantine zone from being distributed outside of it.

Residents living in the quarantine zones can help prevent the spread of the oriental fruit flies by not moving those crops from their property.

The farm is under quarantine and the state’s department of agriculture is surveilling the area.