{"id":433717,"date":"2010-03-16T08:18:06","date_gmt":"2010-03-16T12:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.earthportal.org\/news\/?p=3202"},"modified":"2010-03-16T08:18:06","modified_gmt":"2010-03-16T12:18:06","slug":"moths-threaten-calif-wine-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/433717","title":{"rendered":"Moths threaten Calif. wine country"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/03\/13\/us\/13moth.html\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/graphics8.nytimes.com\/images\/2010\/03\/13\/us\/13moth_CA0\/13moth_CA0-articleInline.jpg\" width=\"198\" align=\"right\" height=\"221\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/eenews.net\/Greenwire\/2010\/03\/15\/12\/\" >Greenwire<\/a>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eoearth.org\/article\/Energy_profile_of_California%2C_United_States\">California<\/a> quarantined 162 square miles of Napa Valley last week as  part of an all-out effort to stymie the spread of the European grapevine  moth, a major new threat to the region&#8217;s lucrative grape crop.<\/p>\n<p>The moth, first discovered in the region last September, has caused  crop damage across Europe. Its larvae target grape flowers but also 21  other crops, including olives and kiwis.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This pest directly attacks the fruit and the flower and that is  tremendously concerning,&#8221; said Bruce Phillips, a local grape farmer. &#8220;If  we are not successful in eradication, this could present serious  long-term costs for us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Grapes within the quarantine cannot leave its boundaries, though  they can be processed on site. California&#8217;s grape harvest was worth  $2.74 billion last year.<\/p>\n<p>Some 2,500 traps have been set for the moth in the region. Pheromone  dispensers to disrupt mating will go into the field in the next few  weeks while a long-term attack plan is worked out, said Jennifer Putnam,  director of Napa Valley Grapegrowers, a nonprofit trade group.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The time to get this pest is now,&#8221; Putnam said. &#8220;This spring is  critical&#8221; (Malia Wollan, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/03\/13\/us\/13moth.html\" ><em>New York  Times<\/em><\/a>, March 12). <strong>&#8211; PV<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"akst_link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthportal.org\/news\/?p=3202&amp;akst_action=share-this\"  title=\"E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc.\" id=\"akst_link_3202\" class=\"akst_share_link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Share This<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greenwire: California quarantined 162 square miles of Napa Valley last week as part of an all-out effort to stymie the spread of the European grapevine moth, a major new threat to the region&#8217;s lucrative grape crop. The moth, first discovered in the region last September, has caused crop damage across Europe. Its larvae target grape [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4055,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-433717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4055"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}