Glassy Winged Sharp Shooter - a threat to the California Wine Industry

The Glassy Winged Sharpshooter is a serious threat to producers in California for its ability to destroy the crops at home. This species is quite large for a cicada to half an inch long and dark brown to black with the lower yellow or white, can be easily with its bright yellow cat eyes, transparent wings (which can be effectively than can be brown identified, if extended). It is conduct such a nuisance to farmers because of its ability, a diseasefrom one plant to another through a series of crops to kill effectively all. Everything what they need, is in contact with the bacteria Xylella fastidiosa once a plant stem unhealthy and will continue the disease during their life to spread. This species is also a prolific breeder that makes it very difficult to distribute so that an estimated 52 million U.S. dollars to control, not an annual loss of crops and plants of California.

The GlassyWinged Sharp Shooter can eat more than seventy species of plants, but research shows that one can be impartial grapes, citrus, pome, almond, and oleander. This strain has Mouth like an idiot in August that the materials collected for the consumption of vegetables, even the dangerous bacteria that may be on or inside the plant. Once in the mouth, bacteria are a more concentrated form to be collected and stored in the next plant that feeds. Not only that this threat tosecond frame and all future installations of the shooter can consume, but also increases the likelihood that their children also have access to the bacteria, causing further destruction.

This species reproduces by eleven fifty eggs on the underside of the plants and covered with a thin powery white substance. Once these eggs hatch, the offspring by different mute through cycles before reaching full adulthood, and more often than some are alreadyContact with dead bacteria that causes the destruction of such systems. An interesting fact is that it gets kind of response that all harmful bacteria, it frustrates and puzzles scientists, looking for a more definitive.

The Glassy Winged Sharpshooter Control is far from an easy task, and the U. S. Department of Agriculture is highly dependent farmers for their produce this insect and signs of their presence to monitor. The easiest way to locate this type ofPresence is the collection of eggs on the plants or white residue left looking after the meal. Keep in mind that parasitic wasps can be used to locate and destroy the eggs of this type, and a number of pesticides have shown promise that has infested sniper in the early stages. If there is no evidence that the glassy wing Sharpshooter is distributed in your area, it is absolutely essential when a pest control expert or contactlocal agricultural Commission immediately. Any delay not only places your crops and plants in danger, but bad for your entire county agricultural resources.