Grapeleaf skeletonizer and grape flea beetle were found in the orchard during the last couple of days. These two pests damage grape leaves but few other plants. The skeletonizer is a bluish-black moth ...

With thousands of tiny moths already trapped in budding vineyards, Napa Valley grape growers have begun spraying pesticides against the latest threat to California's premiere wine region. "We're in ...

If you happen to be wandering the Mojave Desert and come across a desert tortoise, don’t poke around the critter too closely—you could end up covered with a surprise spray of artificial grape fluid.

Sonoma County supervisors indicated Tuesday that Sonoma Valley residents and grape growers are better off accepting chemical-laced twist ties to avoid aerial spraying in the fight against the light ...

When a voracious pest triggered a quarantine this week across much of Napa Valley-- the nation's premier grape-growing region -- it threatened more than the grapes themselves. The spraying of ...

OAKLEY — The stewards of a six-acre field of century-old vineyards have sued the nation’s second-largest railway company, alleging that the railroad’s indiscriminate spraying of herbicides is harming ...

OAKLEY — The stewards of a six-acre field of century-old vineyards have sued the nation’s second-largest railway company, alleging that the railroad’s indiscriminate spraying of herbicides is harming ...