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South Korea on Monday imposed an import ban on citrus and other fruit from California due to the fact of a noxious insect there, government officials said.

The National Plant Quarantine Service, affiliated with the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, said an area in California’s Rialto, San Bernardino County has been strike by the insect known as Bactrocera dorsalis.

The ban affects citrus fruit, kiwis, grapes and other fruit grown in an 84-square-mile radius of the area where the pest was detected.