Posts Tagged: leafhoppers
Leafhoppers on plants
You may see leafhoppers in your garden or landscape this time of year as they hop about feeding on...
Adult leafhopper. (Credit: Jack Kelly Clark)
Leafhopper damage
I visited a field with leafhopper damage. What was interesting about this field, is that the...
They Hop and They Suck!
You've seen them. You've seen them hop. They're aptly named. Leafhoppers are tiny insects (family...
Two leafhoppers sharing a black sage leaf in Vacaville, Calif. They are Typhlocybinae leafhoppers, Eupteryx decemnotata, according to Robert Lord Zimlich of BugGuide.Net. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
"Leafhoppers generally are varying shades of green, yellow, or brown, and often mottled," according to the UC Statewide Integrated Pest Management Program. This one is a Eupteryx decemnotata on black sage (Salvia mellifera) in Vacaville, Calif. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Management of 'Hoppers' that Infest Alfalfa in California's Southern Desert
Introduction Alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.) has been cultivated in California since it was first...
Hairy alfalfa vs non hairy 2014
Hairy alfalfa vs non hairy 2014b
A True Success Story
Meet Cindy Preto. The new UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology's graduate student is...
UC Davis graduate student Cindy Preto is studying vineyard leafhoppers. (Photo by Liam Swords)
Cindy Preto, shown here in a UC Davis vineyard, is the first in her family to graduate from college. She's now a master's student, studying with Frank Zalom. (Photo by Liam Swords)
Sticky traps in the vineyard. (Photo by Cindy Preto)