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Article: Tulare County, Calif., Considers Traps for Olive Fruit Fly.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)
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- July 21, 2000
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Jul. 20--In the worst case, 18,000 acres of Tulare County olive groves could be blanketed with more than half a million yellow insect traps under a state plan to prevent the spread of the olive fruit fly.
"If they trapped it all at the rate they want to trap, we are going to glow," said Lynn Thomas, Tulare County's deputy agricultural commissioner.
Although Thomas and staff biologist Dennis Haines seriously doubt that will happen, the state's new requirements for shipping olives from infested counties will have an impact on local growers.
Tulare County -- the leading olive grower in the state -- is infested with the olive fruit fly, as are Kern ...