California's latest vineyard pest, the vine mealybug, continues to spread around the state at a prolific clip, prompting grapegrowers and agriculture officials to fight back. While not fatal to ...
An invasive vine mealybug was found in Southern Oregon in 2021 and since then, vineyards have been fighting to eradicate the insect. The pest can cause significant damage to Oregon’s grape vines, ...
The Napa County Agricultural Commissioner’s Office will continue its strategic release of parasitic Anagyrus wasps this month as part of a comprehensive effort to diminish Napa County’s vine mealybug ...
An insidious vineyard pest that is threatening some of the finest vineyards in California may have met its match in Ron Rosenbrand. The vineyard manager at Spring Mountain Vineyard outside St. Helena, ...
California vintners are employing a four-legged ally in their fight against a new pest menacing state vineyards. A dog squad, still in pilot stages, is one of a number of strategies being considered ...
Vine mealybugs are a microscopic pest that lives under the bark of a vine, reproduces rapidly and its excrement, honeydew, covers a vine and grapes. Once the honeydew is on the grapes, a grower is ...
Joy, a bouncy golden retriever with a nose for bad bugs, may be the wine industry's newest weapon in the costly battle against a nasty vineyard pest. Joy and four littermates are being trained as ...
If there ever was a bug that we should all raise a glass of wine for, it's the mealybug destroyer. This heroic bug has been ...
The Florida Entomologist, Vol. 98, No. 1 (March, 2015), pp. 237-242 (6 pages) The effect of access to buckwheat flowers (Fagopyrum esculentum Moench; Polygonales: Polygonaceae) or vetch extrafloral ...
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First there was phylloxera, then the glassy-winged sharpshooter. Now a third sap-sucking insect is menacing the fabulously valuable vineyards of the Napa Valley: the vine mealybug. Like its ...
Have you ever encountered a white cottony mass on a garden plant and wondered what it is and what to do about it? Chances are the culprit is the mealybug. While more than 170 species of mealybugs ...
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