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  Hike your way to bluebird of happiness
  San Francisco Chronicle on May 8, 2009

  Last year the winery built 500 bluebird boxes in hopes of recruiting the birds for the elimination of the blue-green sharpshooter, a nemesis to the grapevine and small cousin to the glassy-winged sha...

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• WINE BRIEFS (The St. Helena Star)
  WINE BRIEFS on May 11, 2009

  The Napa Valley Grapegrowers (NVG) has announced the recipient of its 2009 Grower of the Year award. Longtime Napa grower Andrew Hoxsey will be honored at the organization’s 34th Annual Dinner on May...

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• WINE BRIEFS - St. Helena Star
  St. Helena Star on May 12, 2009

  The State Senate Committee on Food & Agriculture voted 5-0 recently to approve SB 2, legislation by Senator Patricia Wiggins (D - Santa Rosa) to extend the Pierce's Disease/Glassy-Winged Sharpshooter...

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• Bonny Doon Vineyard tasting room adds gourmet cafe
  Santa Cruz Sentinel on May 13, 2009

  He goes on to point out how random winemaking can be, "accidentally" delivering this incredible syrah before the glassy-winged sharpshooter, which carries Pierce's disease, wiped out the vineyard. Th...

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• WINE BRIEFS (The St. Helena Star)
  WINE BRIEFS on May 13, 2009

  The Napa Valley Grapegrowers (NVG) has announced the recipient of its 2009 Grower of the Year award. Longtime Napa grower Andrew Hoxsey will be honored at the organization’s 34th Annual Dinner on May...

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• Parks and Napa Pipe
  Napa Valley Register on May 20, 2009

  May has been proclaimed “Glassy-winged Sharpshooter Awareness Month” by the Board of Supervisors. The board wants Napa County residents to know that the threat is still out there — that it is as impo...

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