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Sharpshooter Surprises California Scientists by Traveling with Citrus.
Byline: Dennis Pollock
Nov. 2--Not a single glassy-winged sharpshooter was found during transport of 2.6 million tons of bulk grapes in California this year under a costly, time-consuming program put in place to prevent the spread of the pest that carries a deadly disease in grapes.
That's 110,000 truckloads of 24 tons each.
But it's believed that hundreds of the insects, very much alive, found their way into at least 10 Tulare County packinghouses in just a few days by following a path that was not subjected to such scrutiny. They hitchhiked on citrus -- mostly navel oranges -- coming out of a Kern County hot spot for the pest.
"We were blindsided," said Joel Nelsen, president of Exeter-based California Citrus Mutual. "It caught a lot of people in the scientific community red-faced."
The common wisdom among scientists advising the California Department of Food and Agriculture was that citrus was not a pathway for spread of the insect, partly because it does not eat the…
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