Source: NCSU COOPERATIVE EXTENSION, 5/20/19

As we approach the 3rd week of May, the plants continue to fill in, and some fields have started to blossom. Numbers of the leafhopper Graphocephala versuta – a vector of Pierce’s Disease – are starting to increase in some vineyards, and we caught our first Oncometopia orbona, broad-headed sharpshooter, at sites in the Northeast, Northwest and Southeast. See our first scouting report for our previous findings.

We have no captures of the three-cornered alfalfa hopper on the traps, but as the other host crops like peanuts and soybean are being planted around our locations, we are likely to start seeing them soon.

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