Glassy Winged Sharpshooter Spottings Decrease

Yesterday's Santa Rosa Press Democrat, reports that Sharpshooter season ends with fewer finds than in 2001. At high level, Sonoma remains free of the glassy-winged sharpshooter. An intensive seven-month trapping and inspection program has protected the region’s more than 120,000 acres of vineyards.

Mendocino, Lake, Napa and Marin counties also remain free of the sharpshooter, a half-inch-long leaf hopper that spreads the bacterium that causes Pierce’ disease, an incurable and fatal plague of grapevines.

Here is a chart with number of glassy winged sharp shooters egg spottings in Sonoma:

Number of Glassy Winged Sharp Shooter Spottings in Sonoma
2002	8 spottings	7 people inspected 2,550 truckloads of nursery plants shipped from Southern California.
2001	11 spottings
2000	2 spottings