Increasingly stringent environmental regulations are prompting grape growers and their pest-management advisers to seek help in many quarters. Now they can find assistance online in the new Web-based ...
NAPA COUNTY (BCN) — A destructive moth with the ominous name of the Western Grapeleaf Skeletonizer has been found in a vineyard trap in Calistoga, the Napa County Agricultural Department said. The ...
Southern California nursery owners will receive millions of dollars in emergency funding to help control a voracious pest that threatens the state’s wine industry, the U.S. Department of Agriculture ...
Vineyard with integrated pest management near Káptalantóti, in the Balaton Uplands region, Hungary. Land use change and the increased agrochemical use associated with agricultural intensification ...
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Charlotte Oliver, Colorado State University (THE CONVERSATION) Grape phylloxera, or ...
Q: The leaves of my grapevines are being chewed up by a funny-looking caterpillar that I’ve never noticed before. I’m embarrassed for anyone to see how bad the vines look. How should I fight this ...
Sex pheromones make excellent compounds for ecofriendly pest control because they target particular insects and pose no risk to humans or other beneficial insects. But the European grapevine moth ...
Citing climate change and the idea it might repulse a well-documented vine disease, University of California, Davis, researchers have released new varieties of wine grapes. The five new varieties, ...
Agricultural researchers have launched a four-year study to determine whether a voracious bug that has wreaked havoc on California’s wine industry could also be harming the state’s citrus groves.