Ken Wayne of the Fox Television affiliate in San Francisco, KTVU, interviewed UC Agriculture and Natural Resources environmental horticulture advisor Steven Swain for a story about the recent appearance of a glassy-winged sharpshooter in Marin.

The pest arrived in a shipment of nursery stock and was immediately returned to its source in Ventura, where GWSS is established.

Swain, who works out of the UC ANR Cooperative Extension office in Marin County, crafted some colorful word pictures to help the lay audience understand glassy-winged...