Sentences with phrase «winged sharpshooters»
Invasive glassy - winged sharpshooters in French Polynesia didn't last long after Mark Hoddle unleashed tiny parasitic wasps to do the dirty work.
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When asked how he intends to keep glassy - winged sharpshooters out of his family vineyards, he replied, «We go to church every Sunday and pray.»
Another Glassy - Winged Sharpshooter Egg Mass Discovered in Napa: For the second time this spring, the Napa County Agricultural Commissioner's Office discovered a viable glassy - winged sharpshooter egg mass during a plant shipment inspection, the county announced Friday...
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A biologist recruited the glassy - winged sharpshooter's sworn enemy, microscopic wasps, to decimate their population.
Scientists and government officials sought his help in French Polynesia, where islands were overrun with the glassy - winged sharpshooter, or Homalodisca vitripennis.
Hoddle believed the strategy that worked in smaller focused areas in California, where the glassy - winged sharpshooter first invaded in the late 1980s, would be successful more than a decade later in French Polynesia.
One of the most intimate so - called mutualisms can be found inside a notorious enemy of the American farmer, an insect called the glassy - winged sharpshooter.
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The bacteria grows in the gut of certain species of leafhoppers known as sharpshooters — small, winged insects that feed on plant sap.