Rachael Myrow here, host of the California Report, with an AM post from somewhere else in California. We're in this Golden State together. Right?
It happened in Hacienda Heights, a suburban bedroom community on the east side of LA County. State ag inspectors peered closely at a sickly citrus tree. Could it be?
Yup.
The California Department of Food and Agriculture sent the tree to labs in Riverside and Washington, D.C. The results are buzzing around the Citrus Research Board office in Visalia, the Visalia Times Delta reports.
The Asian citrus psyllid, having established itself in our yards, is indeed carrying the bacterial infection we've known it's capable of carrying: huanglongbing, or HLB, or "citrus greening," or a major problem for one of California's major crops.