Invasive disease keeps Florida’s orange industry under tight squeeze Nearly 15 years after a citrus disease-carrying bug landed from China, decimating more than 90% of Florida’s groves, growers and scientists are frantically researching for permanent solutions to save the Sunshine State’s backbone industry from huanglongbing bacterium ("yellow dragon disease" in Chinese), known worldwide as "HLB." IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES N°1MK89R