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Grapevine-killing pest reaches Ukiah Costco
Plants sold at Costco stores around California this spring, the Ukiah warehouse among them, harbored the glassy-winged sharpshooter — an insect that can spread Xylella fastidiosa, the bacterium behind the vine-killing Pierce’s disease. On May 19, inspectors seized and destroyed what was still on the shelves, but the rest had already gone home with shoppers, […] The post Grapevine-killing pest reaches Ukiah Costco appeared first on Local News Matters .
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According to Local News Matters’s source item, Grapevine-killing pest reaches Ukiah Costco, Plants sold at Costco stores around California this spring, the Ukiah warehouse among them, harbored the glassy-winged sharpshooter — an insect that can spread Xylella fastidiosa, the bacterium behind the vine-killing Pierce’s disease. On May 19, inspectors seized and destroyed what was still on the shelves, but the rest had already gone home with shoppers, […] The post Grapevine-killing pest reaches Ukiah Costco appeared first on Local News Matters .
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