Pierce's Disease
Research Updates

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What is Pierce's Disease?

Pierce's Disease is a bacterial infection, which is spread by bugs that feed on grapevines, particularly the "glassy winged sharpshooter." Grapevines that become infected with PD can quickly become sick and die.

glassy-winged sharpshooter

Author Detail

  • Name:
    Cavichioli, R.
Published DateTitlePublicationAuthor List
January 01, 2006 Brazilian sharpshooters of the genus Homalodisca Stal, 1869 (Hemiptera, Cicadellidae): notes, new records, key to species, first description of the male of H-ignota Melichar, 1924, and a new Northeastern species Zootaxa McKamey, Stuart; Takiya, Daniela; Cavichioli, R.;
July 01, 2006 Validity of Homalodisca and of H-vitripennis as the name for glassy-winged sharpshooter (Hemiptera : Cicadellidae : Cicadellinae) Annals of the entomological society of america McKamey, Stuart; Takiya, Daniela; Cavichioli, R.;
September 01, 1999 A key to five sharpshooter leafhoppers (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Cicadellinae) vectors of the Citrus Variegated Chlorosis (CVC) Anais da sociedade entomologica do brasil Cavichioli, R.; Marucci, Rosangela; Zucchi, Roberto;
December 01, 2000 Description of immature stadia of Acrogonia sp., Dilobopterus costalimai Young e Oncometopia facialis (Signoret) (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Cicadellinae) Anais da sociedade entomologica do brasil Cavichioli, R.; Marucci, Rosangela; Zucchi, Roberto;
June 01, 2002 Sharpshooter leafhoppers (Hemiptera, Cicadellidae, Cicadellinae) in citrus groves of the area of Bededouro, SP, with description of a new species of Acrogonia Stal Revista brasileira de entomologia Cavichioli, R.; Marucci, Rosangela; Zucchi, Roberto;
February 01, 2005 Two new species of the neotropical leafhopper genus Scoposcartula (Insecta : Hemiptera : Cicadellidae : Cicadellini) Zootaxa Cavichioli, R.; Mejdalani, G.; Leal, F.;
January 01, 2006 Sharpshooters of the genus Homalodisca Stl, 1869 (Hemiptera, Cicadellidae) in Brazi Zootaxa McKamey, Stuart; Takiya, Daniela; Cavichioli, R.;
January 01, 2006 Fixation of the type-species of Homalodisca Stl as H. vitripennis (Germar), the oldest name for the glassy-winged sharpshooter (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Cicadellinae) Annals of the entomological society of america McKamey, Stuart; Takiya, Daniela; Cavichioli, R.;