Those Asian citrus psyllids trapped in Orange County last week tested negative for the greening disease that has wiped out citrus industries around the world. But one of the insects has been found in a yard tree in Echo Park, and traps will be going up in Los Angeles by the hundreds. Business writer Jerry Hirsch has been covering the real threat to California's citrus groves at the L.A. Times.

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