The glassy-winged sharpshooter drinks huge amounts of water and thus pees frequently, expelling as much as 300 times its own body weight in urine every day. Rather than producing a steady stream ...

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But as KLTV 7's Molly Reuter shows us, it's what this teenager is studying that's all the buzz. "Umm, the glassy wing sharpshooter." I'm sorry, what was that? "The glassy wing sharpshooter." Yeah, try ...

Twenty-five years after appearing in California, the glassy-winged sharpshooter remains public enemy number one on the grape growers’ list of vine-devastating insects. It has yet to show up in ...

To learn more, Bhamla and bioengineering graduate student Elio Challita studied glassy-winged sharpshooters– an insect the size of a millimeter known notorious for spreading disease among crops ...

California winegrape growers are asked to have ballots postmarked by Thursday, June 12, on a referendum for extension of ...

The target: a tiny insect with an oversized impact, known as the glassy-winged sharpshooter. In the past month, however, the war has moved into the courts, as county agricultural officials ...

Two live glassy-winged sharpshooters were found in nursery shipments from Santa Barbara and Ventura counties to Marin and Sonoma counties. The invasive pest feeds on more than 300 varieties of ...

An infestation of vineyard-threatening glassy-winged sharpshooters was identified in Solano County earlier this month, officials say. The insect is a transmitter of Pierce’s Disease, which ...