Last week we noticed a grapefruit tree down the street had fruit on the ground covered in medflies. Now I went to take out the garbage this morning and medflies are swarming here too. Anyone know of a way to report this to the city or state?
Posted May 4, 2017, 1:40 PM UTC
Do you have photos of these medflies? Most people can't tell the difference. Put some in a small glass bottle with rubbing alcohol and call 311 or the County Agriculture Department.
I don't but it should be trivial to get a few pics. Thanks for the suggestion.
When you can, post some photos here. If they actually are medflies, then it's pretty serious because Sacramento County doesn't have an established population here yet. Here's the Pest Detection website: http://www.agcomm.saccounty.net/Programs/Pages/PestDetection.aspx
Thank you for the link, will do. Since the garbage has been collected they've all dispersed from the cans, so I'll keep an eye out going forward. They may still be at the citrus tree down the street, I'll check this evening.
Sacramento Vector Control - http://www.fightthebite.net/
Report to your county agricultural commissioner or california department of food and Agriculture.
I work for the CA Dept. of Food and Agriculture. If you can call for me (Kevin) at 916-403-6677 with the address of the tree, I can have someone come out and take a look. Or you can use our Report-a-Pest website at https://www.cdfa.ca.gov/plant/reportapest/ to submit inquiries and photos. We even have a Report-a-Pest iPhone app in Apple Store you can download and use.