The Texas Sharpshooter Fallacy [PDF]
Body, Space & Technology Journal, 2017 Apophenia is the very human capability of making meaning out of the chaotic data of the world. It’s pattern recognition: Jesus on your toast. But Carl Jung advocated for careful attention to the phenomenon of coincidence.
Zofia Sleziak
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Geographical survey of the mycobiome and microbiome of Southern California glassy-winged sharpshooters. [PDF]
mSphere, 2023 The glassy-winged sharpshooter, Homalodisca vitripennis Germar, is an invasive xylem-feeding leafhopper with a devastating economic impact on California agriculture through transmission of the plant pathogen, Xylella fastidiosa.
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Using X-ray Micro-Computed Tomography to Three-Dimensionally Visualize the Foregut of the Glassy-Winged Sharpshooter (Homalodisca vitripennis). [PDF]
Insects, 2022 Dissecting the heads of small insects belonging to the order Hemiptera for detailed anatomical investigation with light or scanning electron microscopy is difficult, time-consuming, and destructive, often resulting in sample preparation artifacts ...
Killiny N, Brodersen CR.
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Fluid dynamic simulations at the interface of the blue-green sharpshooter functional foregut and grapevine xylem sap with implications for transmission of Xylella fastidiosa. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2022 Xylella fastidiosa is a multi-continental, lethal, plant pathogenic bacterium that is transmitted by sharpshooter leafhoppers (Insecta: Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Cicadellinae) and adult spittlebugs (Hemiptera: Aphrophoridae).
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A new sharpshooter threatens both crops and ornamentals [PDF]
California Agriculture, 1999 The glassy-winged sharpshooter (Homalodisca coagulata), an insect that has recently invaded California, and the smoke tree sharpshooter (Homalodisca lacerta) are creating serious new economic problems in both agricultural and ornamental plantings.
M Blua, P Phillips, R Redak
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XadA2 Adhesin Decreases Biofilm Formation and Transmission of Xylella fastidiosa subsp. pauca. [PDF]
Insects, 2020 Xylella fastidiosa is a vector-borne bacterium that causes diseases in many plants of economic interest. The bacterium–vector initial interactions involve bacterial membrane-bound adhesins that mediate cell attachment to the foregut of insect vectors. We
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Sharpshooter on the move [PDF]
California Agriculture, 2000 California Agriculture - All ...
California Agriculture
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Sharpshooters, Leafhoppers, Cicadellidae (Insecta: Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha: Cicadellidae)
EDIS, 2005 Sharpshooter is a term commonly used to describe a group of leafhoppers in the family Cicadellidae. There have been several explanations for the use of this term.
Chris Tipping, Russell F. Mizell, III
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Functional foregut anatomy of the blue-green sharpshooter illustrated using a 3D model. [PDF]
Sci Rep, 2021 Sharpshooter leafhoppers (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Cicadellinae) are important vectors of the plant pathogenic bacterium Xylella fastidiosa Wells et al. (Xanthomonadales: Xanthomonadaceae). This pathogen causes economically significant diseases in olive,
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Glassy-winged sharpshooters expected to increase plant disease [PDF]
California Agriculture, 1999 As it moves through California, the new pest known as glassy-winged sharpshooter (GWSS) may significantly increase the spread of plant diseases caused by the bacterium Xylella fastidiosa.
A Purcell, S Saunders
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