Often, a piece of leaf tissue will be stuck to the gum on the grapefruit surface. Oranges fall somewhere in the middle between grapefruit and mandarins, though navel oranges that are penetrated to the juice more commonly develop a decay, rot and drop off the tree, especially if the puncture is near the navel end of the fruit where the peel is usually very thin. Clientele may argue that they had no stink bugs on their trees, but the damage indicates otherwise. The waiting is over the brown citrus aphid has been detected in South Florida. Both detections were on dooryard trees both sites are in the Ft.
Extensive surveys are underway in the area.
The affected citrus trees have been treated with Lorsban followed by Admire. At this writing, it is unknown if infestation exists beyond the immediate area of the two finds. Spot infestations of the imported fire ant have been identified in Cameron County over the last couple of years, and have been treated as they occurred. These infestations were thought to have come into the Valley in container nursery stock from other areas of the state. Recently, mounds of the imported fire ant have appeared in a local pecan orchard and other infestations have been reported in Hidalgo County.