Aussie Moth Threatens American Plants

The light brown apple moth sounds harmless enough, but like other invasive species, it threatens to wreak havoc on numerous plant species if it continues to spread. A native of Australia and New Zealand, it was first discovered in a backyard in California in March, and has led to a quarantine of many products leaving the state so as to avoid spreading it. It likes to eat as many as 250 species of plants, including some important to California's agricultural and horticultural industries.