- Author: Jeannette E. Warnert
Published on: February 25, 2015
![Virginia creeper leafhopper adults have a reddish-brown zigzag marking on each front wing.](https://ucanr.edu/blogs/Green/blogfiles/27952small.jpg)
Virginia creeper leafhopper adults have a reddish-brown zigzag marking on each front wing.
When Virginia creeper leafhopper made its way into Mendocino and Lake county wine country a few years ago, some certified organic winegrape producers threw in the towel.
“They lost too much income,” said Glenn McGourty, a UC Agriculture and Natural Resources Cooperative Extension advisor in Lake and Mendocino counties. “They decided they were not going to risk their crop until there is a workable biological control solution to this new pest.”
Meanwhile, other organic grape producers are hanging on to their organic certification and counting on UC ANR researchers to come through with a biological control option...
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