Ohio issues quarantine for 4 Greater Cincinnati counties over this invasive moth

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Ohio issues quarantine for 4 Greater Cincinnati counties over this invasive moth

Four counties in the Greater Cincinnati region and two in the Dayton area are under a quarantine to prevent the spread of an invasive moth that can destroy a kind of shrub popular in the region. The box tree moth is originally native to regions in Asia, according to the Ohio Department of Agriculture, which issued the quarantine for Butler, Clermont, Hamilton, Warren, Greene and Montgomery counties. That quarantine began April 11. In 2007, the m…