Technicians with the San Luis Obispo County Department of Agriculture will begin efforts in February to eradicate the glassy-winged sharpshooter ... 6 to 8 p.m. at the UC Cooperative Extension ...

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So it might seem odd that Jake Blehm spends his days hunting the glassy ... winged sharpshooter. The program is based at a California Department of Food and Agriculture facility in Riverside, not ...

Scientists at UC Riverside have a shot at eradicating a deadly threat to vineyards posed by the glassy-winged sharpshooter, just as its resistance to insecticide has been growing. When the half ...

That's the glassy-winged sharpshooter and it has the entire Napa ... 9 a.m. to noon, at UC Cooperative Extension office, 1710 Soscol Ave., Suite 4, Napa, 253-4221, or from toll free at 877-279-3065.

The target: a tiny insect with an oversized impact, known as the glassy-winged sharpshooter. In the past month, however, the war has moved into the courts, as county agricultural officials ...

First, the glassy-winged sharpshooter. Now ... The Phytophthora fungus was discovered by UC-Berkeley plant pathologist David Rizzo, who is heading the crash research program to learn how it ...