glassy-winged sharpshooter
A leafhopper with a mottled-brown body about 1?2 inch long and grayish translucent, red-veined wings. As with all insects in this family, they feed on plant juices and often transmit diseases between plants via their mouths. The voracious glassy-winged sharpshooter daily consumes about 100 times its body weight in plant material, which makes it particularly destructive. This insect is responsible for the potentially apocalyptic spread of PIERCE'S DISEASE throughout California's vineyards.
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Pierce's disease (P.D.),
phylloxera
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1995 based on THE WINE LOVER'S COMPANION,
by Ron Herbst and Sharon Tyler Herbst.
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