Sacramento, Calif., Insect-Hunting SWAT Team Helps Disarm Agriculture Pest.

Sacramento, Calif., Insect-Hunting SWAT Team Helps Disarm Agriculture Pest.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, June, 2004

By Melanie Payne, The Sacramento Bee, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Jun. 12–Two members of Sacramento County’s glassy-winged sharpshooter team were sent Friday to Solano County to assist officials there in dealing with an infestation of the disease-carrying agricultural pest.

The glassy-winged sharpshooter carries Pierce’s disease, which is deadly to grapevines u California’s second-largest agricultural commodity with $2.6 billion in cash receipts in 2003.

Sacramento County has an eight-member team focused on the eradication and control of the pest that first appeared here in July 2000, said Dave Wilson, Chief Deputy Agricultural Commissioner
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