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The federal and state departments of agriculture go to great efforts to control agricultural diseases. Others have mentioned foot and mouth, but there are lots
by floren 4y ago
The federal and state departments of agriculture go to great efforts to control agricultural diseases. Others have mentioned foot and mouth, but there are lots of other things. For instance, half of Washington State is declared an "Apple Maggot Quarantine Area" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Maggot_Quarantine_Area https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Maggot_Quarantine_Area) where it's illegal to bring in homegrown / wild-picked fruit lest you infect Eastern Washington's massive apple orchards. A couple years back the Governor very publicly violated that long-standing order: https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2020/sep/16/inslee-brings-infected-apples-on-visits-to-fire-da/ https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2020/sep/16/inslee-brings-...
- thaumasiotes 4y ago> half of Washington State is declared an "Apple Maggot Quarantine Area" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Maggot_Quarantine_Area https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Maggot_Quarantine_Area) where it's illegal to bring in homegrown / wild-picked fruit lest you infect Eastern Washington's massive apple orchards. The article you link suggests that the quarantine area is the region from which it's illegal to bring fruit out. The wikipedia article also does something interesting where it describes a mature fly as being an "apple maggot". I would have thought that the term "maggot" referred exclusively to the larval form.
- TeMPOraL 4y agoIsn't a mature fly just a maggot delivery vehicle?
- floren 4y agoI guess technically the state of Washington has declared western WA and pretty much every other state in the continental US to be "quarantined" because those other areas have apple maggots. It's a lot easier to talk about eastern WA as the "quarantine area" though. It is illegal to bring homegrown fruit into eastern Washington, regardless of terminology.