A new compliance agreement will allow the shipment of Buxus box plants outside of counties under Michigan’s box tree moth interior quarantine. Prior to May 22, no one was able to move regulated articles outside of the 12 quarantined southeastern and central Michigan counties because of an infestation of the box tree moths. Now, nurseries that produce boxwoods in the quarantine zone are allowed to enter an expanded compliance agreement with the Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development to sell plants outside of the quarantine zone.
