About 12,000 citrus trees in St. Charles Parish are in danger from a tiny insect that carries an incurable disease. Though no cases of citrus greening disease have been reported in the parish and only ...

To understand consumers’ attitudes toward a bioengineered crop pesticide for controlling Asian citrus psyllid, researchers are asking for volunteers to participate in focus groups in Riverside, ...

Routine inspections by California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) officials led to the discovery of a citrus disease in Ramona, resulting in a quarantine.

Gardeners, this week we are discussing Asian Citrus Greening and Citrus Canker and how we can recognize each of the two citrus diseases. There are numerous plant diseases that may attack citrus trees, ...

Some Costa Mesa residents are being notified citrus trees in their yards may need to be sprayed with insecticide or removed, after state agriculture officials confirmed the detection of harmful ...

Three months after the state imposed a citrus quarantine across 100 square miles of Ventura County, inspectors have diagnosed 68 residential citrus trees with huanglongbing, an incurable ...

California agricultural officials have identified a deadly plant disease in Carson for the first time — though it’s been in Southern California for a while. The disease, dubbed Huanglongbing — or HLB ...

Eleven years after a disease that kills citrus trees was discovered in Southern California, the number of infections is rising — but experts and researchers are still fighting it. In Southern ...

When I started my horticultural career in New Orleans back in 1980, my memory of growing citrus seems so easy. White flies and other sucking insects and the sooty mold they caused were the only major ...

The California Department of Food and Agriculture Thursday declared a new citrus quarantine in Valley Center after detecting the citrus tree disease known as Huanglongbing — or citrus greening — in ...

Citrus trees are wonderful to have growing in your garden. They attract bees when they're in bloom with those lovely fragrant blossoms, and provide you with fruit to enjoy throughout their cropping ...

In late 2016, as many of us were enjoying the harvests from our backyard citrus, I wrote an article about being on the lookout for citrus greening. At the time, citrus greening, a bacterial plant ...