omg same

I thought this would be about flying drones to carry medical suplies

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Anlia Rogers and yet oregon and Washington get a ton of fruit from CA... I’m kind of grossed out now 🤢

Here in Australia, states have checkpoints with bins between state borders where you're supposed to dump any plant materials.

@@Deathmastertx yeah they have incinerators at these checkpoints to burn the confiscated food. Crazy how one bad apple could ruin a whole industry.

@@Deathmastertx And when you fly into Australia, you get warned repeatedly to dispose of any fruit in bins before you get to customs.

Ohhhh, so that's why on the show Frasier Niles mentioning the Oregon border check and him having fruit in the car.

Well because of that and they still do that for invasive species and also other pests that can be hiding in them. It's a big problem for countries borders.

Not a gag.....guess you've never traveled.

They have it in Australia. You have to pull off the highway and throw fruit/veggies into a bin

You have to do that when traveling internationally too. I was on a cruise and we stopped in Mexico and everyone who got off that boat had to have their bags sniffed by dogs looking for fruit.

still do that.

Being from South Australia it was always strangely fun as a kid to go through the state's fruit fly checkpoint. It's more honour system than gestapo.

They still have them in certain areas

*effected not infected

I think the bee's are a world wide thing, but I would like to know the aftermath .

Laura Opdam Malathion is highly toxic for bees, so it has probably impacted the bees after decades of aerial spraying.

@@AO-jm2qo affected*

Probably very negatively, but it was still probably the best choice of action considering the destructive nature of fruit flies.

Katie Kat I highly doubt that

I'd feel filthy

Well, it's a fly larva, so it isn't just a maggot looking thing, it is a maggot.

I found a giant worm in a banana once after I bit into it but I still eat em tbh

You can tell you live in a first world country and buy your food in a store. Lmao

I don't know I haven't done research but I'm assuming it's invasive here and not there

The countries around the Mediterranean Sea and our 50th State (Hawaii), along with other fruit fly infested nations, no longer grow or produce enough fruit and vegetables to export or even feed themselves! The Medfly destroyed their Agricultural Industries.They must import all of their fresh produce from California which provides food for 25 percent of the world. California's $50-Billion Dollar per year Agricultural Industry was saved by Terrance M. Allen S.C.E. (Inventor of the Medfly Detection Tools, Los Angeles, 1975 - 1976 ), who can be seen in this news video. He was terminated as the Detection Entomologist (Santa Clara - San Francisco Bay Area, July 1980 - January 1981) and the Medfly Eradication Project Leader (December 1980 - January 1981) by Gov. Jerry Brown Jr. and Atty. Jerry Scribner, who continually told untruths about the fruit fly. He was even questioned by the FBI and the California State Senate and Assembly (by court ordered subpoenas), and even incarcerated after the Medfly was continually detected even after being eradicated year after year, decade after decade. Shame on these politicians!

No, that happens elsewhere too. The risk to agriculture, and therefore the food supply, is that great.

That bug is literally the most damaging pest to food in the world.

amy g these werent regulsr fruit flys, normal ones wait till fruit is rotting. These ones were able to eat unripe fruit.

Michael Collins of course the flies were there or near by or they wouldn’t have been spraying. Also they sprayed everywhere. It didn’t matter whether they were rich or poor. Also there no affects to measure because the chemical isn’t cancerous or dangerous to humans or even small animals for that matter.

Michael Collins Of course they were there. They didn't just spray because the US Government enjoys getting sued.

yet i wonder why california is so wierd right now.

Right now? I suggest you go look at some footage of California in the 60's.

Affected*

It’s so beautiful up in our ‘lost coast’, same with the central coast!

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Katie Kat good thing you aren't in charge of anything important

Lol, yes ants are very busy indeed

As a fellow Katie, I would like to say that snakes and sharks are actually very interesting creatures and that they play a very important role in the ecosystem :) although I do understand that many people are afraid of them. But I agree on the mosquitoes thing! Honestly how are they helping any ecosystem aside from spreading nasty parasites?

there are some animals that predate upon mosquitos if you can call that helping

Sure get rid of all snakes so all the rats, mice, n other small creatures come into ur home so u can squeal n jump on the kitchen counter ( mice r really cute ❤️)

Apparently Moonbeam fears a tiny fly more than rapists and murderers from South of the border...

Adam Smith you’re so dumb it’s astonishing

Will Asproth you’re*

Brittany Di thanks

Will Asproth you’re welcome. Look out for “they’re” as well, commonly forgotten ☺️