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Privet Leafhopper (Fieberiella florii)
Photo#129292
Copyright © 2007
Arthur Scott Macmillan
Some kind of hopper, Bay Area, CA -
Fieberiella florii
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Sunnyvale, Santa Clara County, California, USA
June 21, 2007
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Contributed by
Arthur Scott Macmillan
on 21 July, 2007 - 6:00pm
Last updated 4 September, 2008 - 8:05pm
Privet Leafhopper
They're really common in my yard.
Here's one of mine:
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Cheryl Moorehead
, 22 July, 2007 - 10:30am
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If you see them all the time...
...I guess they must be OK. I also guess you have better vision than I do!
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Arthur Scott Macmillan
, 23 July, 2007 - 9:05pm
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Sharpshooter
Cicadoidea » Leafhoppers (Cicadellidae) » Cicadellinae » Homalodisca
sp.?
If it is a glassy-winged sharpshooter the California Dept of Food and Agriculture should be called. These little guys are becoming a problem.
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Richard Wasson
, 21 July, 2007 - 7:53pm
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A problem? That's news to me.
The bay area used to be strongly agricultural, but now unless it can eat concrete I don't think it will do much damage around here. This particular insect was very small. My naked eyes could not even be sure if it was actually an insect!
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Arthur Scott Macmillan
, 23 July, 2007 - 9:03pm
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Pierce’s disease
The real problem associated with glassy-winged sharpshooter is that it can spread the disease-causing bacterium Xylella fastidiosa from one plant to another. This bacterium is the causal agent of devastating plant diseases such as Pierce’s disease of grape, oleander leaf scorch, almond leaf scorch and mulberry leaf scorch. Other diseases to landscape plants in California include sweet gum dieback and cherry plum leaf scorch.
Suggest you google Pierce disease, the spread of the disease could do millions of dollars of danage to the wine industry, which lies just north of the Bay Area.
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Richard Wasson
, 23 July, 2007 - 10:51pm
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Your right the transmission of disease by leaf hoppers is
a potentially devastating problem. I did not mean to trivialize that, rather, I was lamenting the fact that this area, arguably some of the best farmland in the world, is being wasted on industries that would be more appropriately located on less productive land. And yet industry is what generates jobs and prosperity.
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Arthur Scott Macmillan
, 24 July, 2007 - 5:28pm
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